Post by rgsp on Mar 8, 2023 15:44:50 GMT
Face of the south transept, with tower and spire behind so the 100 feet of transept depth is not visible. Peregrine falcons have nested on the spire for some centuries.
Edith Cavell was executed as a war crime near Brussels during the 1st World war. Her remains were brought to Norwich in the 1920s, and the present memorial was later still. Most texts have her as being killed by Germans, but it appears to have actally been English-hating Belgians under German leadership, a bit like some in Brussels now.
These gates into the East side of the cloister are rarely bothered with by journalists etc., but I think they're rather fine.
Norwich had a remarkable series of Master Masons, who uniquely in those times insisted on "foundations", which were inadequate by modern standards, but better than any other English mediaeval cathedral. There are astoundingly few settlement cracks and leaning columns. The cloister was a bit of an afterthought, and the buttressing of the inner wall is slightly inadequate, as seen by the lean of columns to the left, reducing to zero at the corner where the section at right angles gives support.
Lincoln Cathedral avoided the problem by "faking" the heavy vaulted roof by lightweight wooden battens covered in stretched fabric and then plaster.
Architectural photographs are subject to camera lens aberrations, particularly in "fast" and "zoom" lenses. The lean in the photo above is pretty well real. The inward lean of the nave pillars below is camera generated with a wide angle lens setting - actually there is none at all worth mentioning.
There is no major graveyard within the cathedral close, but the open plain just to the West is Tombland. The photo is looking west through the Tombland Gate, and the building through the gate is worth looking at carefully.
Edith Cavell was executed as a war crime near Brussels during the 1st World war. Her remains were brought to Norwich in the 1920s, and the present memorial was later still. Most texts have her as being killed by Germans, but it appears to have actally been English-hating Belgians under German leadership, a bit like some in Brussels now.
These gates into the East side of the cloister are rarely bothered with by journalists etc., but I think they're rather fine.
Norwich had a remarkable series of Master Masons, who uniquely in those times insisted on "foundations", which were inadequate by modern standards, but better than any other English mediaeval cathedral. There are astoundingly few settlement cracks and leaning columns. The cloister was a bit of an afterthought, and the buttressing of the inner wall is slightly inadequate, as seen by the lean of columns to the left, reducing to zero at the corner where the section at right angles gives support.
Lincoln Cathedral avoided the problem by "faking" the heavy vaulted roof by lightweight wooden battens covered in stretched fabric and then plaster.
Architectural photographs are subject to camera lens aberrations, particularly in "fast" and "zoom" lenses. The lean in the photo above is pretty well real. The inward lean of the nave pillars below is camera generated with a wide angle lens setting - actually there is none at all worth mentioning.
There is no major graveyard within the cathedral close, but the open plain just to the West is Tombland. The photo is looking west through the Tombland Gate, and the building through the gate is worth looking at carefully.