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Throughout the Middle Ages (c.1100 – 1530s) no new diocese were created although at Salisbury, for example, the old Anglo-Norman cathedral at Old Sarum was replaced by a new cathedral and cloistral range of buildings for a colony of secular canons (s.p.b.s) all constructed between 1220 and 1258, although its famous crossing tower and ‘needle’ […]

Today’s photo, taken from an old postcard purchased long ago, shows Ely cathedral’s west entrance and west porch with the single west tower behind and beyond, over the crossing, the octagonal lantern tower, this completed in 1322 and was then the most progressive architecture of its day. Monastic cathedrals (those served by Benedictine monks) had

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

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

Apology for break in service, have been ill this last week, hope to start a new theme this coming week.

Above a somewhat unusual angle not showing Trent Falls but the end of the scarp slope of the Lincolnshire Wolds and the plantation (woodland) through which the A1077 snakes down the steep gradient into the village of South Ferriby, the ex-cement works just off screen upper-centre right (s.p.b.). The structures in the distance are part