Question: Which cathedral has the tallest spire, Wakefield Cathedral or Shrewsbury Cathedral?

Context articles: St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
St. Mary's Basilica (Halifax)
Wakefield Cathedral
Lincoln Cathedral
St Michael and St George Cathedral, Grahamstown
Diocese of Wakefield
Shrewsbury Cathedral
Dean of Wakefield
Jonathan Bielby
Hugh Norton

Saint Patrick's Cathedral () in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1191, is the National Cathedral of the Church of Ireland.
 With its 43 m spire, St. Patrick's is the tallest church in Ireland and the largest.
 Christ Church Cathedral, also a Church of Ireland cathedral in Dublin, is designated as the local Cathedral of the diocese of Dublin and Glendalough.
St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica is a Gothic Revival Catholic cathedral located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
 It is the cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Halifax and is the largest Catholic church in the Archdiocese.
 Consecrated on October 19, 1899, it was made a basilica in 1950 by Pope Pius XII.
 The St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica boasts the tallest granite spire in North America.
Wakefield Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, is one of three co-equal Anglican cathedrals for the Diocese of Leeds and a seat of the Bishop of Leeds.
 Originally the parish church, it has Anglo Saxon origins and after enlargement and rebuilding has the tallest spire in Yorkshire.
 Its 247 ft spire is the tallest structure in the City of Wakefield.
Lincoln Cathedral or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, and sometimes St. Mary's Cathedral in Lincoln, England is the seat of the Anglican bishop.
 Building commenced in 1088 and continued in several phases throughout the medieval period.
 It was the tallest building in the world for 238 years (1311–1549), and the first building to hold that title after the Great Pyramid of Giza.
 The central spire collapsed in 1549 and was not rebuilt.
 The cathedral is the third largest in Britain (in floor area) after St Paul's and York Minster, being 484 by .
 It is highly regarded by architectural scholars; the eminent Victorian writer John Ruskin declared: "I have always held... that the cathedral of Lincoln is out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles and roughly speaking worth any two other cathedrals we have."
The Cathedral of St Michael and St George is the home of the Anglican Diocese of Grahamstown in Grahamstown, South Africa, in the Eastern Cape Province.
 It is the episcopal seat of the Bishop of Grahamstown.
 The cathedral is located on Church Square and has the tallest spire in South Africa 176 ft .
 The cathedral is dedicated to St Michael and St George and celebrates its patronal festival on the Sunday closest to Michaelmas (29 September).
The Diocese of Wakefield is a former Church of England diocese based in Wakefield in West Yorkshire, covering Wakefield, Barnsley, Kirklees and Calderdale.
 The cathedral was Wakefield Cathedral and the bishop was the diocesan Bishop of Wakefield.
The building of the cathedral was originally commissioned by John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, the intended architect being Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin but both men died in 1852 before the work was expected to start.
 The succeeding nephew, the 17th Earl, Bertram Talbot offered to fund the building of the cathedral from which the new diocese of Shrewsbury would be based.
 The cathedral's design was taken over by Edward Pugin (the son of Augustus).
 Originally, a larger cathedral with a tall spire was planned.
 However, two years into the building of the cathedral, a stratum of sand was discovered very close to the building's foundations, causing them to be weaker than expected, so the spire had to be abandoned and the building scaled down.
 The Earl of Shrewsbury then agreed to meet the cost of a smaller church, and this was finished at a cost of £4,000, although the Earl died three months prior to its completion.
 In 1856, the cathedral was completed and was opened by Cardinal Wiseman.
The Dean of Wakefield is the head ("primus inter pares" – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, the ruling body of Wakefield Cathedral.
 The dean and chapter are based at the "Cathedral Church of All Saints Wakefield".
 Before 2000 the post was designated as a provost, which was then the equivalent of a dean at most English cathedrals.
 The cathedral is one of three co-equal mother churches of the Diocese of Leeds and a seat of the Bishop of Leeds.
 The current dean is Jonathan Greener, presiding dean of the diocesan chapter.
Jonathan Bielby (born 1944 in Oxford) is an English cathedral organist.
 In 2010 he retired from Wakefield Cathedral after an exceptionally long incumbency, which had lasted more than forty years.
Norton was educated at Monkton Combe School and Wadham College, Oxford.
 He was ordained in 1914 and served curacies in Whitechapel, Stepney and Tottenham; also as a wartime Chaplain to the Forces in the Middle East.
 He was Precentor of Wakefield Cathedral from 1921 to 1924; and again a Chaplain to the Forces from 1924 to 1945 when he took up his Archdeacon’s appointment.
 He was Rector of Horringer from 1945 to 1958; and then a Canon Residentiary of St Edmundsbury Cathedral from then until 1964: there is a memorial to him there.
 He was Archdeacon Emeritus of Sudbury from 1962 until his death.