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The left tower of Clermont Ferand Cathedral. I admit having done a bit of violence to the colour, the cathedral is pitch black, but I wanted to experiment with Lightroom color manipulation...
Wells Cathedral, Somerset.
Cathedral Church of St Andrew the Apostle.
George Hooper (1640-1727), Bishop of Wells (1704-27).
Long Latin Inscription.
He married Abigail Guildford and they had 9 children, but only one was living at the time of his death.
Born in Worcestershire in 1640, Hooper was an excellent scholar. Having an "insatiable thirst for knowledge of all kinds", he was ordained in 1666 and became Chaplain to King Charles II in 1680, King James II in 1685 and William and Mary in 1688. He was Dean of Canterbury and then Bishop of St Asaph, before coming to Bath and Wells after the death of Bishop Kidder. He was a most successful and popular prelate. He attended the Duke of Monmouth at his execution. He also repaired the storm damage at Wells Palace so that Bishop Kidder's daughter was spared the repair bills. Only one of his 9 children survived him. This marble monument in the Cathedral was erected to his memory.
Amiens Cathedral is a Catholic building located in Amiens, in the Somme department, in the Hauts-de-France region. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, it is the cathedral of the diocese of Amiens.
Its construction began in the 13th century, and it is contemporary with that of the cathedrals of Reims, Bourges, and Beauvais. It is the largest cathedral in France in terms of its interior volume, and only the Saint-Pierre Cathedral in Beauvais exceeds it in height (from the choir under the vault).
St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. It is the most northerly cathedral in Britain, a fine example of Romanesque architecture built for the bishops of Orkney when the islands were ruled by the Norse Earls of Orkney. It is owned not by the church, but by the burgh of Kirkwall as a result of an act of King James III of Scotland following Orkney's annexation by the Scottish Crown in 1468. It has its own dungeon.
Construction began in 1137, and it was added to over the next three hundred years. The first bishop was William the Old, and the diocese was under the authority of the Archbishop of Nidaros in Norway. It was for Bishop William that the nearby Bishop's Palace was built.
Before the Reformation, the cathedral was presided over by the Bishop of Orkney, whose seat was in Kirkwall. Today, it is a parish church of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and therefore technically no longer a cathedral.