The cathedral's physical history, a substantial Victorian building raised directly over a much older parish churchyard with centuries of prior burials, provides an obvious and repeatedly used explanation in local tradition for why a comparatively young building should already have accumulated its own set of ghost stories within little more than a century of being consecrated.
The Red Lady herself remains the least well documented element of the cathedral's haunting in the sources available for this entry, named consistently enough to suggest a real, persistent local tradition, but without any surviving origin story, meaning this register can record her existence as a named local figure without being able to responsibly attach any specific biography or historical event to her.
The more general reports, footsteps in empty aisles and a robed figure near the choir stalls, are consistent with a broad and very common category of cathedral and church hauntings found across Britain, and this register notes that consistency honestly as a reason for some caution, since the same handful of sensory details recur so often at large old ecclesiastical buildings that they are hard to treat as strong evidence for any one specific spirit.
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