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Tickets give you access to the Cathedral Floor and Crypt, the Dome Galleries, our multimedia guides and any temporary exhibitions and installations. In addition, we offer a number of  free tours and ticketed tours  – including our Triforium tour add-on, which you can book when purchasing your sightseeing ticket. 

Explore our different ticket options below and book your tickets today.

Our sightseeing opening times are: 

Monday to Saturday 8.30am (10am on Wednesday) to 4.30pm Last sightseeing entry 4pm.

As a sightseeing ticketholder, you will have access to the Cathedral Floor (ground floor) and the Crypt. You can also climb the Dome, up to the three Dome Galleries – the internal Whispering Gallery, the Stone Gallery and the Golden Gallery, which provide incredible views over London. Why not explore our map in advance of your visit?

Please note that the Galleries can be accessed by stairs only. There are a total of 257 steps up to the Whispering Gallery, 376 steps up to the Stone Gallery and 528 steps (total) to the Golden Gallery. We recommend that those with pre-existing medical conditions, mobility difficulties or concerns with heights and confined spaces do not try to climb these stairs. 

You will be able to pick up a free multimedia guide and you have the opportunity to join our range of free tours . A video fly-through of the Gallery levels and their views is available on the multimedia guides. You will also have access to any temporary exhibitions and installations, which you can see advertised on our What’s On page.

Find out the cost of sightseeing tickets to the Cathedral, and what discounts are available, including for advance bookings, and for families, children and concessions. Visit our ticket types and prices page for more information.

Visit our helpful page full of frequently asked questions around our different sightseeing tickets, complimentary tickets and booking to visit the Cathedral. Find out more.

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Single-date ticket

Adult: £25  Children: £10

• Pick a specific date and time to visit.
• Discounts available for children, families, students and seniors.
• Add-on a tour to the Cathedral Triforium.

Group tickets

Adult: £22.50  Children: £9

• For 15+ visitors.
• Free places available for supervising adults or a tour leader.

Open-dated ticket

• Perfect as a gift for someone.
• Discounts available for children, students and seniors.
• Gives access to the Cathedral on a flexible date of your choice, within one year of purchase.

Complimentary tickets

• Free tickets for disabled visitors.
• Disabled visitors can also bring a carer or companion free of charge.

Former Choristers

• Complimentary entry for former Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral.
• Bring up to six accompanying family members.

Triforium Tour

• One-hour tour of the Cathedral's Triforium.
• Go behind the scenes to see more of the Cathedral.
• Includes the Cathedral library.
• See the iconic Geometric Staircase.
• View the length of the nave from above the Great West Doors.
• Valid admission ticket, Annual Pass, Friends of St Paul's membership or other visit entitlement also required.

Become a Friend

If you're a regular visitor, why not become a Friend of St Paul's?

Established in 1952, the Friends began as a group of volunteers risking their lives to save the Cathedral from bombing during WWI. By joining for just £50 a year, you can benefit from free visits, discounts at our shop, priority access to events and the unique Friends digital offering. Visit our page to find out more.

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Find out everything you need to know to get the most out of your visit to St Paul’s, including opening times, ticket types and prices and what's on offer.

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Why we charge

Although our services are free, we ask our sightseeing visitors to contribute an entrance fee. 

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Cathedral hill, tour description.

The best place to begin an exploration of Cathedral Hill is where Summit Avenue and Selby Avenue meet. This is the edge of what St. Paul’s early residents called St. Anthony Hill. The site offers one of the city’s best views: to the north, the Capitol; to the east, downtown below and Dayton’s Bluff in the distance; and to the southeast, Cherokee Heights. The observer blessed with imagination may see it as it was before transformed by the human hand: the tree-lined river gorge, the great turn of the river to the south, low hills rising on the left, white cliffs, sandbars in the channel, wetlands and woods where downtown now stands, and prairie in the distance.

For its first 30 years or so what is now downtown WAS St. Paul. Eventually, however, people with means looked to higher ground – airier, less crowded, and more pleasant. And so, starting in the 1870s, a neighborhood we now call Cathedral Hill began to take shape: big houses, fine stone buildings, and lovely churches organized on a comprehensible grid - so different from the starts, stops, and diagonals of downtown.

Much of the original elegance of the late 19th century remains. This tour, readily walkable for most people, covers over 50 years of time, from 1863 to 1915, or perhaps 150, right to today. It includes one of the city's oldest buildings, still in use, and one of its most elegant, an emblem of historic preservation.

Locations for Tour

Selby avenue: an introduction, cathedral of saint paul, virginia street swedenborgian church, dacotah building (w.a. frost), the blair flats, st. joseph's academy, tour postscript.

Cathedral of St. Paul

239 selby ave st paul , mn 55102.

The Cathedral of Saint Paul is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota. It is the Co-Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis; the other Co-Cathedral is the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis. One of the most distinctive cathedrals in the United States, it sits on Cathedral Hill overlooking downtown St. Paul and features a distinctive copper-clad dome. It is dedicated to Paul the Apostle, who is also the namesake of the City of St. Paul. The current building opened in 1915 as the fourth cathedral of the archdiocese to bear this name. On March 25, 2009, it was designated as the National Shrine of the Apostle Paul by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican.

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From Minneapolis: Take 94 East to the Marion Street exit Turn right onto Kellogg Boulevard Turn right onto John Ireland Boulevard Turn right again onto Selby Avenue

From the North or the East: Take 35E south to 94 West in the direction of Saint Paul From 94 West take the Marion Street exit Turn left on Marion - this turns into Kellogg Boulevard, stay in the right lane Turn right onto John Ireland Boulevard Turn right onto Selby Avenue

From the South: Take 35E north to Kellogg Boulevard exit Turn left onto Kellogg Boulevard Turn left onto John Ireland Boulevard Turn right onto Selby Avenue

From the Airport: Exit the Airport by taking MN Hwy 5 East heading in the direction of Saint Paul Continue on Hwy 5 as it becomes West 7th Street, proceed until the 35 E Freeway junction Take the 35E North on ramp from West 7th Street Take the Kellogg Boulevard exit Turn left onto Kellogg Boulevard Turn left onto John Ireland Boulevard Turn right onto Selby Avenue

Limited parking is available across from the Cathedral on Selby Avenue.

The Cathedral's handicapped-accessible entrance is available off of Selby Avenue. The handicapped-accessible entrance to the lower level in on Dayton Avenue. There is an elevator inside the Cathedral. Street parking on Selby Avenue in front of this door is marked for handicapped use only.

The Cathedral of Saint Paul offers Assisted Listening services for the hard of hearing. If you would like to benefit from this service and you have a hearing aid with a T-coil, please pick up one of our FM receivers at the Ushers Room (between the vestibule and the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary). The system works either with the accompanying silhouette or your own neck loop.

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We are very pleased to announce the 2023-2024 Season of the Downtown Concert Series at the Cathedral of Saint Paul !

Our next concert on SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2024, at 4:00pm features ISABELLE DEMERS , Professor of Organ at McGill University in Montréal, QC, Canada. As always, the concert is free and open to all! A description and program will be posted after Easter!

Each month from September 2023 to May 2024 (except January), we will offer free concerts by musicians chosen from among the best local, national, and even international talent. Desiring especially to showcase the recently-completed Anna Catharine Grace Memorial Pipe Organ , our season this year includes several notable organists – from Paris to Québec!

DOWNLOAD THE CURRENT SCHEDULE HERE   (current as of July 2023)

All concerts are offered free of charge and are hosted inside the Cathedral church, located at 2120 3rd Ave N, Birmingham, AL 35203 ( parking information here ). (NB: The first concert is in the CLC Great Hall; enter through the car gate on 22nd St N, then down the ramp, and in through the double doors to the second floor.) We encourage all to dress in “smart casual” or better. Consider combining your concert attendance with supper out at one of our fine downtown Birmingham restaurants. Off-duty police security will be on site at the Cathedral during each concert, for everyone’s safety and comfort.

This series is made possible due to your generosity! If you are interested in sponsoring all or part of a concert or in becoming a Sustainer of our high-quality program of Sacred Music at Saint Paul’s, please contact Bruce E. Ludwick, Jr., Director of Music and Organist of the Cathedral, for more information: [email protected] . Appropriate donor recognition will be given in program notes and spoken announcements.

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Cathedral Christmas Festival 2023

The Cathedral Christmas Market has it all this year!

December 7, 8, and 9, 2023.

Times 5:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Look forward to another European-styled outdoor Christmas Market in the back Cathedral Courtyard festively decorated with plenty of delicious warm food, Ghiradrdelli hot cocoa, Gluhwein, beer, and unique gifts for sale, fire pits,  a warming tent where you can enjoy your food and beverages, a silent auction with great prizes and a raffle!  Did we mention the roaming according player?  Plus a full line up of food trucks on Dayton Avenue selling a variety of options.   Free admission.      

Overflow Parking for Cathedral Christmas Festival/Concerts:

Saint Paul College parking ramp is available. Max price $5 – Credit Card only. NO American Express. There are two entrances: Kellogg Blvd, from the west, and Marshall Ave, from John Ireland Blvd.  Detailed parking map. 

Scroll down to the bottom for the flyer and news release to share with your neighborhood, parish or school.

Browse the list of our wonderful vendors:

Karol Coffee Co.

Megan Whipple Art

PTL Woodturning

Local Color Artesian

Domestic Church Supply Co.

Angel’s Delightful Creations

Mommy’s Toffee

Conversion Street Studio

Love Story Lines

Inkling Candles

Stumbling Stone Crosses

Chele’s Crazed Cronuts

University of Mary

Mulled Wine and Beer

Cathedral Gift Shop

Cathedral Heritage Foundation with exclusive rights on Cathedral Fox gifts

Mary Sells Sactuary

COME EARLY FOR THE CHRISTMAS MARKET– HEAD INSIDE FOR THE CHRISTMAS TOGETHER CONCERT

 Multi-platinum recording composer and pianist Steven C will bring his popular  Christmas Together  concerts inside the Cathedral to be part of the festival at 7 p.m. on both Thursday, December 7, and Friday, December 8. Tickets will be $10 and sold on Eventbrite and at the door.  On Saturday, December 9, the University of Mary from Bismark, North Dakota, will perform a choral concert, along with area high school choirs lending their voices.  Proceeds from the Christmas Market and  Christmas Together with Steven C  concerts will go towards ongoing Cathedral restoration and preservation projects.

Questions related to the market? Contact: Andrew Kuhrmeyer, CHF Board of Curators, [email protected] . Ph. 651-271-2426

• Timezone: America/New_York
• Date: December 07 - 09, 2023
• Time: 6:00 pm - 10:30 pm

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The best way to experience the Cathedral is during a Sunday service. We offer several services on Sundays – 7:30 a.m. Morning Prayer service, 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, 11:00 a.m. Choral Eucharist, and 4:00 p.m. Evensong. For an FAQ on our services, click here .

Visit us on a weekday

We offer a service at 12:10 p.m. in person at the Cathedral on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. See our full list of services here . If you’d like to visit the Cathedral outside the context of a service, you can come tour the space during Open Cathedral, or attend one of our many concerts and events. For group events, please contact the Cathedral office.

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Open Cathedral takes place on Fridays, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  Docents are available to answer questions, guide your visit, or you are welcome to take in the space at your own pace. You can enter from the parking lot, off Cathedral Lane, or walk through our front doors from Woodward Avenue. Directions and Parking information. There is no admission cost but donations are always welcome to support the ministry of the Cathedral.

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For more information, please contact the Cathedral Office at 313.831.5000  or email [email protected] . 

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