June 2021

Cathedrals 2.

Today’s picture shows Turner’s painting of the south transept of Ely cathedral plus the central octagon lighting the crossing. By the eighth century it had evolved that each of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England (as now), the so-called ‘Heptarchy’, had its cathedral although no modern cathedrals evidence the buildings of that time. However, with […]

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Cathedrals.

Above, a photo. of Ely cathedral as viewed across water meadows from the south. Firstly a misconception – cathedrals are not defined by their ‘bigness’, for example, Beverley Minster (not a cathedral) is much larger (groundfloor area and volume) than Hereford cathedral. This misconception is further fuelled by ‘pseudo’ cathedrals e.g. Patrington church in Holderness

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