Illustration:
Monday 28 October 2024
Zephyrinus Contemplates New Choir Stalls For The Private Chapel In Zephyrinus Mansion. Readers Are Invited To State Their Preference. Perkins (Chauffeur) And Jeeves (Butler) Refuse To Do The Wax Polishing.
Ely Cathedral Choir Stalls.
Illustration:
Rochester Cathedral Choir Stalls.
Text and Illustration: ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL
Charles Tracy studies the exceptional Early- 13th-Century Choir Stalls and associated timber furniture, with drawings and carpentry notes by Cecil Hewett. Featured in The Friends of Rochester Cathedral Annual Report for 1994-1995.
The survival of Choir-Stalls before the 14th-Century in Northern Europe is a great rarity. In Germany, there are some 12th-Century seats at Ratzeburg, near Lübeck.
Such survivors from the Early-Gothic period, as there were
by the 18th-Century in France, Belgium, and Germany, were either replaced with Baroque furniture, or succumbed to the depredations of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.
Some of the fine Early 13th-Century Choir Stalls from Lausanne Cathedral still huddle inappropriately and uncertainly in the South Nave Aisle.
In France, one can only point to the Mid-13th-Century Choir Stalls in the small Abbey Church of Notra Dame de la Roche, Le Mensil Saint Denis, South of Paris.
In England, a complete set of Choir Stalls of this period survive at Salisbury Cathedral, and three Oak Columns with Stiff-Leaf Foliage, possibly from an Early-Gothic set of Choir Stalls at Peterborough Abbey.
A complete set of Choir Stalls, albeit of almost entirely 18th-Century workmanship, and dating from as early as circa 1227, is found at Rochester Cathedral.
Lincoln Cathedral Choir Stalls.
Text and Illustration: FLICKR/AIDAN McRAE THOMSON
Lincoln Cathedral has a strong claim to being England’s finest Mediæval building, being one of the most ambitious and beautifully designed and adorned Cathedrals in Europe, a real masterpiece of Gothic architecture.
The Cathedral also boasts some of the finest Mediæval woodwork in the Country in its superb Choir Stalls, extensively carved with Canopies with Misericords (though, sadly, the latter are rarely on show).
Bristol Cathedral Choir Stalls.
Illustration: HEATHER ON HER TRAVELS
Photo: 13 March 2008.
Source: Own work.
Uploaded by: NotFromUtrecht
Author: Heather Cowper from Bristol, UK
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia.
The three rows of Choir Stalls are mostly from the Late-19th-Century, with Flamboyant traceried ends. There are also twenty-eight Misericords, dating from 1515 to 1526, installed by Robert Elyot, Abbot of Saint Augustine’s, with carvings largely based on Aesop's Fables.[62]
Salisbury Cathedral Choir Stalls.
Illustration: PINTEREST
Durham Cathedral Choir Stalls.
Text and Illustration: DURHAM CATHEDRAL
Bishop John Cosin commissioned the Choir Stalls
lining the North and South Walls of the Quire (Choir)
in the Mid-17th-Century.
After a Century of conflict and war, the Cathedral showed signs of damage. Most of the woodwork had been burned by Scottish Prisoners-of-War, trying to keep warm while imprisoned here in 1640.
In 1665, Cosin commissioned architect James Clement of Durham to design new Choir Stalls in a style that was unique to County Durham.
The design included Gothic Canopies, likely to be inspired
by the Neville Screen, nearby. The Columns that hold up
the Canopies are slender and decorated at the top
with Scroll shapes.
Some of the Stalls in the Quire (Choir) are reserved for senior members of the Cathedral Foundation and Latin inscriptions show where their seats are.
There are also Latin inscriptions along the base of the front rows, based on Psalm 150 and which link praising Godwith music: “Praise him for his mighty acts: Praise him according to his excellent greatness . . . Praise him with the timbrel and dance: Praise him with stringed instruments and organs”.
The seats in the back rows have carved Misericords or “Mercy Seats” beneath. These provide a seating ledge, used for a quick rest from standing during lengthy Services.
Underneath the Misericords are detailed carvings, often depicting Religious scenes and stories or mythical creatures.
The only Mediæval Misericord at Durham Cathedral
dates from the 13th-Century, and shows the Eagle of
Saint John the Evangelist.
Maulbronn Monastery, Germany.
Text and Illustrations: MAULBRONN MONASTERY
Maulbronn Monastery (Kloster Maulbronn) is one of Europe’s most complete and best preserved Mediæval monasteries.
It combines a multitude of architectural styles,
from Romanesque to Late-Gothic.
The Gothic Choir Stalls are directly behind the East Choir Screen, offering seating for ninety-two Monks.
Elaborate carvings adorn the Stalls, which originated in the Mid-15th-Century. The Stalls were disassembled and re-assembled during restorations in the 19th-Century.
The reliefs along the sides of the Choir Stalls warrant a closer look. The Master Carver responsible for this work is unknown.
Perhaps he was one of the Wood Carvers associated with famous Ulm Sculptor, Hans Multscher. There is other Carved artwork to be discovered on the Stalls: Several students from the Evangelical Monastic School have carved their names here.
The Abbot was seated on the Sedilia in the Choir, flanked to the Right and Left by Deacons. This prominent Seat was considered part of the Choir Stalls and was reserved for the most important members of the Monastery.
The Late-Gothic Seat is decorated with bands depicting numerous animals and mythical creatures. To either side are Coats-of-Arms belonging to the Monastery Founders and the Monastery, itself. The tall Side Panels are adorned with
Fruit-Bearing Grapevines.
Choir Stalls, Basilica Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice.
Stalles de la basilique Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venise.
Basilica Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari à Venise.
Photo: 19 August 2014.
Source: Own work.
Author: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT
(Wikimedia Commons)
17th-Century Choir Stalls, Pontigny Abbey, France.
Stalles dans l’abbatiale de Pontigny, France.
Photo: 14 April 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: Michel FOUCHER
(Wikimedia Commons)
Illustration showing 14th-Century Choir Stalls
at Andlau Abbey, Alsace, France.
16th Century (1856) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879).
This File: 13 January 2014.
User: Vieux têtard
(Wikimedia Commons)
Photo: 29 September 2016.
Source: Own work.
Author: José Luiz.
Attribution:
© José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro /
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Last Sunday Of October. The Feast Day Of Our Lord Jesus Christ The King.
Illustration: FR. Z's BLOG
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
The Last Sunday of October.
Feast Day Of Our Lord Jesus Christ The King.
Double of The First Class.
White Vestments.
In his Encyclical of 11 December 1925, His Holiness Pope Pius XI denounced the great modern Heresy of Laicism.
Laicism refuses to recognise the Rights of God and His Christ over persons and peoples, and organises the lives of individuals, families, and of Society, itself, as though God did not exist.
This Laicism ruins Society, because, in place of love of God and one’s neighbour, it substitutes pride and egoism. It begets jealousy between individuals, hatred between Classes, and rivalry between Nations.
The World denies Christ because it ignores His Royal Prerogatives. It must be instructed on this subject. Now, “a yearly Feast can attain this end, more effectively than the weightiest documents issued by Ecclesiastical authority”.
The Holy Father [Editor: Pope Pius XI] has instituted this new Feast to be a public, social, and official, declaration of the Royal Rights of Jesus, as God The Creator, as The Word Incarnate, and as Redeemer.
This Feast makes these Rights to be known and recognised, in a way most suitable to Man and to Society by the sublimest acts of Religion — particularly by the Divine Holy Mass.
In fact, the end of the Holy Sacrifice is the acknowledgement of God’s complete dominion over us, and our complete dependence on Him.
And this act is accomplished, not only on Calvary, but also through the Royal Priesthood of Jesus, which never ceases in His Kingdom, which is Heaven.
The great reality of Christianity is not a corpse hanging from a Cross, but the Risen Christ reigning in all the glory of His triumph in the midst of His elect, who are His conquest (Epistle).
And that is why The Mass begins with the finest vision of the Apocalypse, where The Lamb of God is acclaimed by Angels and Saints (Introit).
The Holy Father [Editor: Pope Pius XI] has expressed his wish that this Feast should be Celebrated towards the end of the Liturgical Year, on the last Sunday of October, as the consummation of all the Mysteries by which Jesus has established His Royal Powers and nearly on the eve of The Feast of All Saints, where He already realises them in part in being “the King of Kings and the Crown of All Saints” (Invitatory at Matins); until He shall be the Crown of all those on Earth whom He saves, especially by The Mass.
It is, indeed, principally by The Eucharist, which is both a Sacrifice and a Sacrament, that Christ, now in glory, assures the results of the victorious sacrifice of Calvary, by taking possession of Souls through the application of the merits of His Passion (Secret) and thereby unites them as members to their Head.
The end of the Eucharist, says the Catechism of the Council of Trent, is “to form one sole mystic body of all the Faithful” and so to draw them in the cult which Christ, King-Adorer, as Priest and Victim, rendered in a bloody manner on The Cross and now renders, in an unbloody manner, on the Stone Altar of our Churches and on the Golden Altar in Heaven, to Christ, King-Adored, as Son of God, and to His Father, to Whom He offers these Souls (Preface).
Saint Simon And Saint Jude. Apostles. Feast Day, Today, 28 October.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Simon and Saint Jude.
Apostles.
Feast Day 28 October.
Double of The Second-Class.
Red Vestments.
Saint Simon and Saint Jude.
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.
Jude, or Thaddeus, had asked The Master, at The Last Supper, why He manifested Himself to The Apostles and not to the World. Jesus answered that He only manifested Himself to Souls who show Him their fidelity by observing His Commandments.
While Simon announced the Gospel to the peoples of The East, Jude wrote his catholic Epistle, which is still read in The West, and "which", declares Origen, "contains strong Doctrine in a few lines".
In the first part, he foretells the condemnation of heretics; he compares them to clouds without water, to Autumn trees without fruit, and to wandering stars, for whom profound darkness is apportioned for all Eternity. Like the rebel Angels, they shall burn for ever in avenging flames.
In the second part, he exhorts The Faithful not to be deceived by the seducers, but to remain firm in their Faith in God and Christ. ["My well-beloved, rising like an edifice on the Foundation of your Holy Faith and Praying by The Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God."
The Archangel Saint Michael, Saint Jude again declares, was established by The Most High as Guardian of The Tomb of Moses. Having, on this occasion, to fight with Satan, probably to hinder him taking possession of the Prophet's body, out of respect for his Angelical dignity, he left to God to condemn him Himself, saying: "May The Lord rebuke him."
The Church puts these very words on the lips of the Priests in The Prayers of Pope Leo XIII, which are said after Low Mass at the foot of the Altar. (Editor: The Leonine Prayers.)]
Mass: Mihi autem.
Creed.
Preface: Of The Apostles.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
According to Tradition, Saint Jude suffered Martyrdom, about 65 A.D., in Beirut, in the Roman Province of Syria, together with the Apostle, Simon the Zealot, with whom he is usually connected. The axe that he is often shown holding in pictures symbolises the way in which he was killed.
Their Acts and Martyrdom were recorded in an Acts of Simon and Jude, that was among the collection of passions and legends traditionally associated with the legendary Abdias, Bishop of Babylon, and said to have been translated into Latin by his disciple, Tropaeus Africanus, according to the Golden Legend account of the Saints.
Sometime after his death, Saint Jude's body was brought from Beirut to Rome and placed in a Crypt in Saint Peter's Basilica, which was visited by many devotees. Now, his bones are in the Left Transept of Saint Peter's Basilica, under the main Altar of Saint Joseph, in one tomb with the remains of the Apostle Simon the Zealot.
The Church puts these very words on the lips of the Priests in The Prayers of Pope Leo XIII, which are said after Low Mass at the foot of the Altar. (Editor: The Leonine Prayers.)]
Mass: Mihi autem.
Creed.
Preface: Of The Apostles.
English:
Church of Saint Simon and Saint Jude (Thaddeus),
Polski: Koścół z XIII wieku.
Date: 24 March 2006 (original upload date).
Source: Transferred from pl.wikipedia to Commons.
Author: The boss at Polish Wikipedia
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
According to Tradition, Saint Jude suffered Martyrdom, about 65 A.D., in Beirut, in the Roman Province of Syria, together with the Apostle, Simon the Zealot, with whom he is usually connected. The axe that he is often shown holding in pictures symbolises the way in which he was killed.
Their Acts and Martyrdom were recorded in an Acts of Simon and Jude, that was among the collection of passions and legends traditionally associated with the legendary Abdias, Bishop of Babylon, and said to have been translated into Latin by his disciple, Tropaeus Africanus, according to the Golden Legend account of the Saints.
Sometime after his death, Saint Jude's body was brought from Beirut to Rome and placed in a Crypt in Saint Peter's Basilica, which was visited by many devotees. Now, his bones are in the Left Transept of Saint Peter's Basilica, under the main Altar of Saint Joseph, in one tomb with the remains of the Apostle Simon the Zealot.
Saint Thaddeus (Jude), Saint Sandukht,
and other Christians in Sanatruk's prison.
This File: 14 December 2009.
User: 517design
Source: Armenian History in Italian Art -
Հայոց Պատմության Էջեր.
Author: Fusaro (19th-Century).
(Wikipedia)
Sunday 27 October 2024
Hereford Cathedral (Cathedral Of Saint Mary The Virgin And Saint Ethelbert The King). (Part Two).
The Choir, Hereford Cathedral.
Photo: 9 July 2014.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Author: Diliff
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless otherwise stated.
Hereford Cathedral remained in a state of ruin until Robert of Lorraine was Consecrated as the Diocese's Bishop in 1079 and undertook its reconstruction. His work was carried on, or, more probably, re-done by Reynelm , who was the next but one Bishop and who re-organised the College of Secular Canons attached to the Cathedral.
Reynelm died in 1115 and it was only under his third successor, Robert de Betun , who was Bishop from 1131 to 1148, that the Church was brought to completion.
Of this Norman Church, the surviving parts are the Nave Arcade, the Choir, up to the Spring of the Clerestory , the Choir Aisle, the South Transept and the Crossing Arches.
Hereford Cathedral.
Available on YouTube
[Editor: In Church Architecture , a Retro-Quire (also spelled Retro-Choir), or Back-Choir, [1] is the space behind The High Altar in a Church or Cathedral, which sometimes separates it from the end Chapel . It may contain seats for the Church Choir . [2] ]
The Lady Chapel, Hereford Cathedral.
Photo: 9 July 2014.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
License: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Author: Diliff
(Wikimedia Commons)
Under Peter of Aigueblanche (Bishop 1240–1268), one of King Henry III 's foreign favourites, the rebuilding of the North Transept was begun, being completed later in the same Century by Swinfield, who also built the Aisles of the Nave and the East Transept.
PART THREE FOLLOWS.
Lincoln Cathedral. An Occasional Update On England’s Magnificent Cathedrals.
Lincoln Cathedral.
Photo: 16 March 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: DrMoschi
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln Minster, or the Cathedral Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln and, sometimes Saint Mary's Cathedral, in Lincoln, England, is a Grade I Listed Cathedral and is the Seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln.
Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the High Middle Ages. Like many of the Mediæval Cathedrals of England, it was built in the Early-Gothic Style.
Although considered doubtful by some, many historians claim it became the tallest building in the World upon the completion of its 160 metres (520 ft) high Central Spire in 1311; if so, it was the first building to hold that title after the Great Pyramid of Giza, and held it for 238 years until the Spire collapsed in 1548,[2][3][4] and was not rebuilt.
Had the Central Spire remained intact, Lincoln Cathedral would have remained the World’s tallest structure until the completion of the Eiffel Tower in 1889. For hundreds of years, the Cathedral held one of the four remaining copies of the original Magna Carta, now securely displayed in Lincoln Castle.
The Cathedral is the fourth largest in the U.K. (in floor area) at around 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft), after Liverpool, Saint Paul's, and York Minster.[5] It is highly regarded by architectural scholars; the 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.”
Remigius de Fécamp, the first Bishop of Lincoln, moved the Episcopal Seat (“Cathedra”) there “some time between 1072 and 1092”.[6] About this, James Essex writes that “Remigius . . . laid the Foundations of his Cathedral in 1072” and “it is probable that he, being a Norman, employed Norman Masons to superintend the building . . . though he could not complete the whole before his death.”[7] Before that, writes B. Winkles: “It is well known that Remigius appropriated the Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Lincoln, although it is not known what use he made of it.”[8]
Up until then, Saint Mary's Church, in Stow, was considered to be the “Mother Church”[9] of Lincolnshire[10] (although it was not a Cathedral, because the Seat of the Diocese was at Dorchester Abbey, in Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire). However, Lincoln was more central to a Diocese that stretched from The River Thames to The River Humber.
Remigius built the first Lincoln Cathedral on the present site, finishing it in 1092 and then dying on 7 May of that year,[12] two days before it was Consecrated. In 1124, the timber roofing was destroyed in a fire. Alexander (Bishop, 1123 – 1148) rebuilt and expanded the Cathedral, but it was mostly destroyed by an earthquake about forty years later, in 1185 (dated by the British Geological Survey as occurring 15 April 1185).[8][13]
The earthquake was one of the largest felt in the U.K: it has an estimated magnitude of over 5. The damage to the Cathedral is thought to have been very extensive; the Cathedral is described as having “split from top to bottom”; in the current building, only the lower part of the West End and its two attached Towers remain of the pre-earthquake Cathedral.[13]
Some (Kidson, 1986; Woo, 1991) have suggested that the damage to Lincoln Cathedral was probably exacerbated by poor construction or design, with the actual collapse most probably caused by a Vault failure.[13]
After the earthquake, a new Bishop was appointed. He was Hugh de Burgundy of Avalon, France, who became known as Saint Hugh of Lincoln. He began a massive rebuilding and expansion programme. With his appointment of William de Montibus as Master of the Cathedral School and Chancellor, Lincoln briefly became one of the leading educational centres in England, producing writers such as Samuel Presbiter and Richard of Wetheringsett, though it declined in importance after William’s death in 1213.[14]
Rebuilding began with the Choir (Saint Hugh’s Choir) and the Eastern Transepts between 1192 and 1210.[15] The Central Nave was then built in the Early-English Gothic Architectural Style. Lincoln Cathedral soon followed other architectural advances of the time – Pointed Arches, Flying Buttresses, and Ribbed Vaulting, were added to the Cathedral.
Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the High Middle Ages. Like many of the Mediæval Cathedrals of England, it was built in the Early-Gothic Style.
Although considered doubtful by some, many historians claim it became the tallest building in the World upon the completion of its 160 metres (520 ft) high Central Spire in 1311; if so, it was the first building to hold that title after the Great Pyramid of Giza, and held it for 238 years until the Spire collapsed in 1548,[2][3][4] and was not rebuilt.
Lincoln Cathedral.
Available on You Tube at
The Angel Choir,
Lincoln Cathedral.
Photo: 15 September 2018.
Source: Own work.
Author: Cc364
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Cathedral is the fourth largest in the U.K. (in floor area) at around 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft), after Liverpool, Saint Paul's, and York Minster.[5] It is highly regarded by architectural scholars; the 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 Nave,
Lincoln Cathedral.
Photo: 30 July 2014.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: "Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
License: CC BY-SA 3.0"
(Wikimedia Commons)
Remigius de Fécamp, the first Bishop of Lincoln, moved the Episcopal Seat (“Cathedra”) there “some time between 1072 and 1092”.[6] About this, James Essex writes that “Remigius . . . laid the Foundations of his Cathedral in 1072” and “it is probable that he, being a Norman, employed Norman Masons to superintend the building . . . though he could not complete the whole before his death.”[7] Before that, writes B. Winkles: “It is well known that Remigius appropriated the Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Lincoln, although it is not known what use he made of it.”[8]
Up until then, Saint Mary's Church, in Stow, was considered to be the “Mother Church”[9] of Lincolnshire[10] (although it was not a Cathedral, because the Seat of the Diocese was at Dorchester Abbey, in Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire). However, Lincoln was more central to a Diocese that stretched from The River Thames to The River Humber.
Remigius built the first Lincoln Cathedral on the present site, finishing it in 1092 and then dying on 7 May of that year,[12] two days before it was Consecrated. In 1124, the timber roofing was destroyed in a fire. Alexander (Bishop, 1123 – 1148) rebuilt and expanded the Cathedral, but it was mostly destroyed by an earthquake about forty years later, in 1185 (dated by the British Geological Survey as occurring 15 April 1185).[8][13]
Vaulted Ceiling of The Angel Choir,
Lincoln Cathedral.
Photo: 15 September 2018.
Source: Own work.
Author: Cc364
(Wikimedia Commons)
Some (Kidson, 1986; Woo, 1991) have suggested that the damage to Lincoln Cathedral was probably exacerbated by poor construction or design, with the actual collapse most probably caused by a Vault failure.[13]
After the earthquake, a new Bishop was appointed. He was Hugh de Burgundy of Avalon, France, who became known as Saint Hugh of Lincoln. He began a massive rebuilding and expansion programme. With his appointment of William de Montibus as Master of the Cathedral School and Chancellor, Lincoln briefly became one of the leading educational centres in England, producing writers such as Samuel Presbiter and Richard of Wetheringsett, though it declined in importance after William’s death in 1213.[14]
Rebuilding began with the Choir (Saint Hugh’s Choir) and the Eastern Transepts between 1192 and 1210.[15] The Central Nave was then built in the Early-English Gothic Architectural Style. Lincoln Cathedral soon followed other architectural advances of the time – Pointed Arches, Flying Buttresses, and Ribbed Vaulting, were added to the Cathedral.
Vaulted Ceiling of The Secondary Transept,
Lincoln Cathedral.
Photo: 15 September 2018.
Source: Own work.
Author: Cc364
(Wikimedia Commons)
This allowed support for incorporating larger Windows. There are thirteen Bells in the South-West Tower, two Bells in the North-West Tower, and five Bells in the Central Tower (including Great Tom). Accompanying the Cathedral’s large Bell “Great Tom of Lincoln”, is a quarter-hour Striking Clock.
The Clock was installed in the Early-19th-Century.[16] The two large Stained-Glass Rose Windows, the matching Dean’s Eye Window and the Bishop’s Eye Window, were added to the Cathedral during the Late-Middle Ages. The former, the Dean’s Eye Window, in the North Transept, dates from the 1192 rebuild begun by Saint Hugh, finally being completed in 1235.
The latter, the Bishop’s Eye Window, in the South Transept, was reconstructed a hundred years later in 1330.[17] A contemporary record: “The Metrical Life of Saint Hugh”, refers to the meaning of these two Windows (one on the “dark” North Side and the other on the “light” South Side of the building). “For North, represents the devil, and South, The Holy Spirit, and it is in these directions that the two eyes look. The Bishop faces the South in order to invite in, and the Dean, the North, in order to shun; the one takes care to be saved, the other takes care not to perish. With these Eyes, the Cathedral’s face is on watch for the Candelabra of Heaven and the darkness of Lethe (oblivion).”
The Choir,
Lincoln Cathedral.
Photo: 30 July 2014.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: "Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
License: CC BY-SA 3.0"
Author: Diliff
(Wikimedia Commons)
In 1290, Eleanor of Castile died and King Edward I of England decided to honour her, his Queen Consort, with an elegant Funeral Procession. After her body had been embalmed, which in the 13th-Century involved evisceration, Eleanor’s viscera were buried in Lincoln Cathedral and Edward placed a duplicate of the Westminster Abbey tomb there.
The Lincoln tomb’s original Stone Chest survives; its effigy was destroyed in the 17th-Century and replaced with a 19th-Century copy. After the additions of the Dean’s Eye and other major Gothic additions, it is believed some mistakes in the support of the Tower occurred, for, in 1237, the main Tower collapsed.
Lincoln Cathedral.
Photo: 7 November 2014.
Source: Lincoln cathedral
Author: Gary Ullah
(Wikimedia Commons)
Between 1307 and 1311, the Central Tower was raised to its present height of 271 feet (83 m). The Western Towers and the front of the Cathedral were also improved and heightened. At this time, a tall Lead-encased Wooden Spire topped the Central Tower, but was blown down in a storm in 1548.
Interior of Clerestory.
Presbytery of Lincoln Cathedral.
“Development and Character of Gothic Architecture”.
By: Charles Herbert Moore.
Date: 1890.
Source: https://archive.org/details/
Author: Charles Herbert Moore.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Lincoln Magna Carta was on display at the British Pavilion during the 1939 New York World's Fair.[22] In March 1941, the Foreign Office proposed that the Lincoln Magna Carta be gifted to the United States, citing the “many thousands of Americans who waited in long queues to view it” and the U.S. passage of the Lend-Lease Act, among other reasons.[22] In 2009, the Lincoln Magna Carta was lent to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.[21]
There are three other surviving copies: Two at the British Library and one at Salisbury Cathedral.[23]
Maintaining the Cathedral costs £1.6 million a year.[35] A major renovation of the West Front was done in 2000. It was discovered that the Flying Buttresses on the East End were no longer connected to the adjoining stonework, and repairs were made to prevent collapse.
The Great West Door
and the West Façade of Lincoln Cathedral.
Date: 1890.
Source: https://archive.org/details/
Author: Charles Herbert Moore.
(Wikimedia Commons)
There was a period of great anxiety when it emerged that the stonework needed to shift only 5 mm (0.20 in) for the entire Window to collapse. Specialist engineers removed the Window’s Tracery before installing a strengthened, more stable replacement. In addition to this, the original Stained-Glass was cleaned and set behind a new clear isothermal glass, which offers better protection from the elements. By April 2006, the renovation project was completed at a cost of £2 million.
Lincoln Cathedral is one of the few English Cathedrals built from the rock it is standing on.[47] The Cathedral has owned the existing quarry, on Riseholme Road, Lincoln, since 1876.[48] This quarry is expected to run out of stone in 2021.[49] The Cathedral’s Stone-Masons use more than 100 tonnes of stone per year for maintenance and repairs.[49]
Lincoln Cathedral is one of the few English Cathedrals built from the rock it is standing on.[47] The Cathedral has owned the existing quarry, on Riseholme Road, Lincoln, since 1876.[48] This quarry is expected to run out of stone in 2021.[49] The Cathedral’s Stone-Masons use more than 100 tonnes of stone per year for maintenance and repairs.[49]
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
