Wakefield Cathedral, the Church of All Saints, stands on a low rise in the centre of the city — a substantial Perpendicular Gothic church with the tallest spire in Yorkshire and a sequence of fine stained-glass windows added by the Victorian designer Charles Eamer Kempe. Most of the present building dates from the fifteenth century, though parts of the foundations go back to the Saxon era.
The interior is worth twenty minutes: look for the medieval rood screen, a pair of early eighteenth-century organ cases, and the Hepworth window in the chapel of St Mark — a small piece of stained glass commemorating the city's most famous artistic daughter, who is otherwise buried in Cornwall.