Ely Cattedrale. Guardando verso l'alto la torre ovest, torrette a sud di West Front, tetto della Cappella di Santa Caterina e navata dall'esterno del Transetto sud.
3750 x 4911 px | 31,8 x 41,6 cm | 12,5 x 16,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
18 maggio 1997
Ubicazione:
Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Altre informazioni:
West End and nave Looking north west up at west tower, south stair turrets of West Front, roof of St Catherine's Chapel and windows and roof of nave from near exterior of South Transept. Church of the Holy & Undivided Trinity, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. The first monestry on this site was an Anglo Saxon nunnery founded by Etheldreda in 673, The Isle of Ely was then an isolated area of high ground often encircled by flood water. It was destroyed by Danes, then re-established by Ethelwold for Benedictine monks (male only) in 970. The present church, started by Abbot Simeon, built over the last site of Etheldreda’s shrine, was completed 1252. Famous for it's wood & glass octagonal lantern tower (not shown). Etheldreda was the daughter of King Anna, sister to Saints Sexburga, Wendreda, and Withburga, wife of King Egfrid. She is aso know as Audrey. The poor quality of trinkets at St Audrey’s Fair in Ely led to the term 'tawdry'. The Cathedral church has been refered to as "A great Arc of relics afloat on the Flood". The unstable nature of the ground has caused many structural problems and necessitated rebuilding and repairs. The West Tower at the centre of this picture is similar, but lower than the central Octagon Tower. "The upper Decorated stage consists of an octagon having a fine window of three lights in each face, the part below the transom not glazed, and an open parapet above. At the corners are octagonal turrets, with open lights above the level of the central portion, and plain parapets. The turrets are detached from the centre, except at the top and bottom. The latest calculations give the height of these turrets as 215 feet. This would be nearly the same as the central tower at Durham." On the left are the two remaining southern turrets of the West front.
