Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Saturday, 3 April 2021

The Pieta, Leeds Cathedral.



The Pieta,
Leeds Cathedral.

The following Text is from Leeds Cathedral's Web-Site at LEEDS CATHEDRAL

The Pieta is modelled on Michelangelo’s Pieta in Saint Peter’s, Rome.
It was executed in marble by Boulton of Cheltenham in 1913
as a memorial to two former Administrators of Leeds Cathedral,
Provost Richard Browne ( 1902) and Canon Charles Croskell ( 1911).

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