Category: cathedrals
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The Arundel Tomb
The Arbury Coffin, was an inspiration to the poetess, Sylvia Plath. Since that posting, I have received a picture post card which depicts the fourteenth-century table tomb, known as The Arundal Tomb, in Chichester cathedral. On top of the tomb lie the effigies of Richard Fitzalan Earl of Arundel, and his second wife, Eleanor (Plantagenet)…
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St Cuthbert’s Gospel
The British Library has announced that it has successfully acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel, a miraculously well-preserved 7th century manuscript that is the oldest European book to survive fully intact and therefore one of the world’s most important books. The £9 million purchase price for the Gospel has been secured following the largest and most…
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The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture online
The CRSBI is an evolving electronic archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture. Romanesque sculpture marks a high point of artistic production in Britain and Ireland, corresponding to the boom in high-quality building that followed the Norman Conquest in 1066, and reflecting a new set of links with mainland Europe. A good deal of…
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Copernicus re-buried
Copernicus’ remains reburied in Polish cathedral The remains of Nicolas Copernicus, the 16th century father of modern astronomy, were reburied in a Polish cathedral Saturday as a cleric expressed regret for Church condemnation of his theories. Copernicus was finally laid to rest in a marked grave, the day following the 467th anniversary of his death,…
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Princess Eadgyth?
From my roving reporter: Tomb of the Saxon Queen: Discovered, Alfred’s granddaughter (link includes pics of the tomb) The crumbling remains of Alfred the Great‘s granddaughter – a Saxon princess who married one of the most powerful men in Europe – have been unearthed more than 1,000 years after her death. The almost intact bones…
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Parc Cybi, Ty Mawr, Holyhead
Parc Cybi, Ty Mawr, Holyhead Archaeological recording and excavation is in progress in advance of the construction of a major Welsh Assembly Government development project at Ty Mawr, Holyhead. The engineering consultancy, Atkins, in association with local construction company, Jones Brothers, are managing the first phase of construction works, due for completion in early 2008.…
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Calleva palace?
Palace at Silchester may have been a sop to loyalty Numerous finds of architectural fragments, often made from Purbeck marble and other decorative stones, have been made at Silchester, near Basingstoke, ever since excavations began there nearly 150 years ago. The problem has been, Professor Michael Fulford explains in a new study, that “for the…
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Ely cathedral
On Thursday we went to Ely, Cambridgeshire, and visited the cathedral. We went on a guided tour of the Octagon. When the dust had settled from the collapse of Ely’s Romanesque crossing tower in 1322, there was just a large open space where the crossing tower on its four great piers had been. Rather than…
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