The Norman Crypt,
Rochester Cathedral.
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Stained-Glass Window, Rochester Cathedral.
The wording, from Isaiah 60:3-5, says:
“The Gentiles shall come to Thy Light,
And Kings to the brighness of Thy Rising”.
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Double Aisles give it the widest Nave of any English Cathedral (115 feet); and it also has the richest set of Late-Mediæval Choir Stalls and Misericords in the Country.
Norwich Cathedral.
Built between 1096 and 1536, Norwich Cathedral has a Norman form, retaining the greater part of its original stone structure, which was then Vaulted between 1416 and 1472 in a spectacular manner with hundreds of ornately carved, painted, and gilded Bosses.
It also has the finest Norman Tower in England, surmounted by a 15th-Century Spire, and a large Cloister with many more Bosses.[4][10]
Winchester Cathedral Choir and Choir Stalls.
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Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Dating from 1158 to the Early-16th-Century, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford,was always a small Cathedral and was made smaller by the destruction of much of the Nave in the 16th-Century.
Dating from 1158 to the Early-16th-Century, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford,was always a small Cathedral and was made smaller by the destruction of much of the Nave in the 16th-Century.
The Stone Spire, from 1230, is one of the oldest in England and contributes to Oxford’s tradition as “the City of Dreaming Spires”. Its most unusual feature is the Late-15th-Century Pendant Vault over the Norman Chancel.[4][10]
Peterborough Cathedral.
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Peterborough Cathedral.
Built between 1117 and 1508, Peterborough Cathedral is remarkable as the least altered of the Norman Cathedrals, with only its famous Early-English Great West Front, with its later Porch, and the Perpendicular rebuilding of the Eastern Ambulatory by John Wastell, being in different styles.
Built between 1117 and 1508, Peterborough Cathedral is remarkable as the least altered of the Norman Cathedrals, with only its famous Early-English Great West Front, with its later Porch, and the Perpendicular rebuilding of the Eastern Ambulatory by John Wastell, being in different styles.
Peterborough Cathedral.
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J. L. Cartwright wrote of the Great West Front that it is “as magnificent an entrance to a sacred building as could well be imagined”.[16]
