The Twenty-Six Mediæval Cathedrals Of England (Part Twenty).

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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unless stated otherwise.

Manchester Cathedral began as a Parish Church and was Re-Founded as a Religious College in 1422, much of its structure being designed by John Wastell (1485-1506). It is very different in style from the earlier great Churches, sometimes being listed with the thirteen Anglican “Parish-Church Cathedrals”. 

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.

Manchester Cathedral.

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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. 

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. 

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] 

The long Wooden Roof of the Nave is original and has retained its painting from 1220.[4][10]

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