It lies in a slightly hidden location, just off Fargate shopping street, but signals its presence with a 195 feet (59 m) spire, the tallest in Sheffield.

The main landowners in Sheffield were the Dukes of Norfolk, and the Shrewsbury Chapel in the now Anglican parish church remained Catholic until 1933.

During the reordering of St Mary's in 1970, at the invitation of the Anglican cathedral, Mass was celebrated on the altar of the Shrewsbury Chapel once again.

A leading local architect, Matthew Ellison Hadfield, designed St Marie's based on a 14th-century church at Heckington in Lincolnshire.

However, a stonemason who had often heard Pratt say he wanted to be buried in St Marie's, dug up the coffin and reburied it in a tomb he had prepared near the altar.

Pratt's coffin still lies there and a plaque marks the spot, but his effigy has been moved to beneath the altar in the Mortuary chapel.

When St Marie's was reordered in 1970 following Vatican II, dark woodwork was removed and new lighting and benches were installed.

During that time the sanctuary was extended into the crossing and reordered, a new cathedra was installed and the choir moved to the west end of the building.

[6] In recent years, the cathedral has been developed as a place of significant public interest, and as an especially fine concert venue, having hosted many of the finest choral ensembles in the world.