Canterbury Cathedral. The Poor Man’s Bible Stained-Glass Window. Made of salvaged pieces from (probably) three Windows, showing Old and New Testament stories.
Source: T. Taylor. Photo 2005.
This File: 25 January 2013.
User: Slick-o-bot
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Chester Cathedral.
Built between 1093 and 1537, Chester Cathedral includes a set of Mediæval Choir Stalls dating from 1380, with exquisite figurative carving. An unusual feature is the very large South Transept. The Early-English Lady Chapel is a harmonious composition in Lancet Gothic. It retains substantial Monastic buildings, including a large Refectory.[4][10]
Chichester Cathedral.
Built between 1088 and the Early-15th-Century, the unusual features of Chichester Cathedral are a Transitional Retro-Choir, a pair of Early-Norman relief carvings and its freestanding Belfry of the 15th-Century. The Spire, rebuilt after its collapse in 1860, can be seen from the English Channel.[4][10]
Built between 1088 and the Early-15th-Century, the unusual features of Chichester Cathedral are a Transitional Retro-Choir, a pair of Early-Norman relief carvings and its freestanding Belfry of the 15th-Century. The Spire, rebuilt after its collapse in 1860, can be seen from the English Channel.[4][10]
Durham Cathedral.
Built between 1093 and 1490, Durham Cathedral, with the exception of the upper parts of its Towers, the Eastern extension known as the Chapel of Nine Altars, and the large Great West Window of 1341, is entirely Norman and is regarded by Alec Clifton-Taylor as “the incomparable masterpiece of Romanesque architecture”.
The beauty of Chester Cathedral.
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The interior is “overwhelmingly impressive”.[4] The Western Lady Chapel, known as the Galilee Chapel, is a unique Norman building different in style to the Cathedral itself.
The view of the Cathedral from the South-West is particularly famous because of its “incomparable setting” on a steep promontory above The River Wear.[10] The Venerable C. J. Stranks wrote: “It stands today vast and impressive in its massive strength, and yet so well proportioned that there is nothing about it which seems ponderous.”[13]
Ely Cathedral.
With the present building dating between 1090 and 1536, Ely Cathedral has a significant Norman Nave and Decorated Gothic Choir, but its most important features are its unique Western Tower of 1174 and Central Octagon of 1322, which Clifton-Taylor describes as “one of the wonders of English Cathedral architecture”.[4]
Durham Cathedral’s Norman Nave
and Early-Ribbed and Pointed Vault.
Photo: 10 August 2020.
Source: Own work.
Author: Amourgirl1
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Exeter Cathedral’s Vaulted Ceiling. the longest
uninterrupted Mediæval Vaulted Ceiling in the World.
Photo: 20 February 2016.
Source: Own work.
Author: Edward Swift
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It also has a unique, large, free-standing Lady Chapel, with a wide Vault and intricately-carved Stone Arcades around the Sedilia.[4][10]
Exeter Cathedral.
Dating from 1112 to 1519, Exeter Cathedral is the major example of a Cathedral built mainly in the Later-Decorated Gothic style of the 14th-Century. It has an impressive Vault, the longest Mediæval Vault in the World, which runs between two Norman Towers placed, uniquely among Cathedrals, over the Transepts.[c] Exeter has many sculptural details, including the figures of its Great West front.[4][10]
Exeter Cathedral.
Dating from 1112 to 1519, Exeter Cathedral is the major example of a Cathedral built mainly in the Later-Decorated Gothic style of the 14th-Century. It has an impressive Vault, the longest Mediæval Vault in the World, which runs between two Norman Towers placed, uniquely among Cathedrals, over the Transepts.[c] Exeter has many sculptural details, including the figures of its Great West front.[4][10]
Gloucester Cathedral.
Dating from 1098 to 1493, Gloucester Cathedral has a Norman Nave with massive Masonry Piers, and a fine 15th-Century Perpendicular Tower, but its main feature is the Eastern End, reconstructed in the 14th-Century as an early example of Perpendicular Gothic and with the largest Mediæval Window in the World, the area of a tennis court. The Cloisters have the earliest example of Fan-Vaulting.[4][10]
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