birdienl ([info]birdienl) wrote in [info]placeofworship,
2010-11-04 15:37:00
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Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England

The post earlier today of [info]corinneceleste about Canterbury Cathedral made me realize I also had pictures of this wonderful church. So here is my addition!



The tower right on the picture is called the Bell Harry Tower. The building of this 90,5 m tower took from 1490 until 1510. The tower is named after Prior Henry of Eastry who organised the building.
The West towers, left in the picture, were build in 1420-1435, but the north west tower was rebuild in the 19th century after it was found to be falling apart.



The nave: this nave, build in the 14th century, replaced the earlier Romanesque nave. The nave was designed by Henry Yevele, the King's Master Mason.



One of the many tombs of bishops in the cathedral, this one commemorates Henry Chichele, bishop of Canterbury from 1414-1443 and founder of All Souls college in Oxford.




The quire was rebuild after a disastrous fire in 1174. Thomas Becket's shrine was placed in the Trinity Chapel in 1220, until it was destroyed in 1538 during the Reformation.



The magnificent vaulting on the inside of the Bell Harry tower, completed in 1503. Strangely, the centre is a trapdoor, above which is the original treadmill used in raising stones during the construction of the tower.



A modern monument at the place where Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170.



One of the many beautiful stained glass windows in the cathedral. This is the West Window of the church. The windows depict persons from the Bible. The middle panel of the bottom row depicts Adam delving and this is the oldest surviving piece of stained glass in the cathedral, dating from 1176!


Tags: britain, christianity, europe

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[info]kizzikat

November 4 2010, 14:58:23 UTC 1 year ago

Really wonderful lighting effects on the pillars and ceiling!

[info]birdienl

November 5 2010, 08:23:05 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks!

[info]messiah_noire

November 4 2010, 15:12:23 UTC 1 year ago

Wonderful pictures. :)
I think Canterbury Cathedral might be my favourite church of them all. There are just so many memories connected to it, makes me quite nostalgic...

[info]birdienl

November 5 2010, 08:45:26 UTC 1 year ago

Canterbury Cathedral is absolutely in my top three of most lovely churches. I've not seen thát many yet, but I'm fairly confident it will stay up high in the list! It's just so utterly beautiful!

[info]suriontwilight

November 4 2010, 15:56:25 UTC 1 year ago

Wonderful photos!

[info]birdienl

November 5 2010, 08:45:52 UTC 1 year ago

thanks!!

[info]gaspardgroupie

November 4 2010, 16:54:47 UTC 1 year ago

I'm loving these photos of canterbury cathedral; it has a special place in my heart!

I'm posting this picture again just because I'm proud of it haha. This is the view of the cathedral from my uni campus:

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[info]birdienl

November 5 2010, 08:56:34 UTC 1 year ago

Oh! You live in (or near) Canterbury! That's wonderful! It's a beautiful picture.

[info]gaspardgroupie

November 5 2010, 09:28:20 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks! I attend the university there.

[info]favouriteyear

November 5 2010, 11:23:55 UTC 1 year ago

Is that near the main University Bus stop? It always used to look so gorgeous in the evening, with the city all lit up.

[I attended University there too. :)]

[info]gaspardgroupie

November 5 2010, 14:46:27 UTC 1 year ago

It is! What did you study?

[info]favouriteyear

November 5 2010, 14:48:14 UTC 1 year ago

Internationa Law with International Relations. I did the LLM, finished last year.

Man I miss England. :(

I've been trying to find my picture of the Cathedral taken in the evening, I think it was the night of the Bonfire, when they have the fair and stuff. And I took from atop the hill, the Cathedral looked so gorgeous all lit up. ♥

[info]gaspardgroupie

November 5 2010, 17:56:05 UTC 1 year ago

Congratulations on graduating!

Wow, that sounds like an amazing picture! I've never been able to take a good picture of the cathedral at night.

I'm really upset that I'm not in England for bonfire night - it will be the first time ever that I haven't celebrated it.

[info]meathiel

November 4 2010, 17:21:24 UTC 1 year ago

Haha ... you beat me. I'd planned on posting my pics - have to find them first, though. :D

[info]birdienl

November 5 2010, 09:00:58 UTC 1 year ago

If you've got pictures of other places in and around the cathedral, you could still post them! Never enought pictures of beautiful places IMO!

[info]meathiel

November 5 2010, 09:03:42 UTC 1 year ago

Problem is ... I can't find them! ;-)

[info]eullipia

November 4 2010, 19:27:10 UTC 1 year ago

Ahh how well I know this cathedral. I was born in Maidstone kent and often used to cycle to see my aunt in Ramsgate via Canterbury and would stop there to take it all in - I was about 14 - years ago now! I got to know it very well and was once enthralled to be stopped in my tracks by a full rehearsal of beethoven's Missa Solemnis bursting upon me.

[info]birdienl

November 5 2010, 09:01:26 UTC 1 year ago

How nice to hear that!

[info]eullipia

November 5 2010, 09:14:09 UTC 1 year ago

Yes it was magical, or perhaps I should say 'transcendent' :-)

Thank you for commenting.

[info]favouriteyear

November 5 2010, 11:24:46 UTC 1 year ago

One of my all time favourite churches. Despite not being Christian, I love how a great a sense of peace this place gives off.

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[info]birdienl

November 9 2010, 08:22:16 UTC 1 year ago

Wow, singing it that church, that must be a wonderful experience!

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[info]zerenezen

November 6 2010, 06:50:29 UTC 1 year ago

Wow:

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