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Manchester Cathedral
Cathedral & Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys & St George, Manchester.
Grade l listed.
Detail: James Moorhouse. Bishop of Mancheser 1886.
Because of the extensive refurbishment carried out both inside and outside the church during the nineteenth century, many people can be forgiven for thinking that, from appearances at least, Manchester Cathedral is a relatively modern church.
In fact evidence of an early Saxon church in Manchester comes from the Angel Stone, which was discovered embedded in the wall of the original South Porch of the Cathedral in the 19th century, and which has been dated to around 700.
It was around the year 1075 that King William the Conqueror gave all the land between the River Ribble and the River Mersey to Roger de Poitou, son of the Earl of Shrewsbury.
He in turn gave the Manor of Manchester to the Greslet or Gresley family.
In 1086 Manchester was recorded in William the Conqueror’s Domesday Book, which mentioned that the place had a Parish Church and it is believed that this church was located at the corner of St Mary’s Gate and Exchange Street.
However, this site was deserted when in 1215 Robert Greslet, Lord of the Manor and 5th Baron of Manchester decided to build the current church adjacent to his manor house (now Chetham’s Library). This became the Parish Church of Manchester.
The Cathedral of Uppsala (Swedish: Uppsala domkyrka), located centrally in the city of Uppsala, Sweden, dates back to the late 13th century and at a height of 118.7 m is the largest church building in Scandinavia.
Taken during Scott Kelby's Photowalk in Halifax.
St Mary's Cathedral Basilica in Halifax was built between 1820 and 1899 and is a designated National Historic Site for its role in the religious history of Nova Scotia. The spire, erected in 1874, stands 189 feet from base to cross and has long been a landmark in Halifax.
The cathedral has withstood the Halifax explosion, although the stained glass windows were largely blown out and redone, and is survived a fire in 1983.
The earliest part of the cathedral are the twin north and south towers, which are Norman in style, and date from the late 12thc. The rest of the church was built in about a hundred years, from c1275-1375. This gives the building a unity of style which is unusual among English cathedrals.
Stained glass in the Lady Chapel. The Virgin and Child with St. Anne - Flemish early 16thc.
The imposing front of the world's sixth largest cathedral. It's a cathedral because it's the seat of the Bishop of Washington. Yep, it's a Protestant church (Episcopalian to be exact).
Our Lady of Burgos was begun in the 13th century at the same time as the great cathedrals of the Ile-de-France and was completed in the 15th and 16th centuries. The entire history of Gothic art is summed up in its superb architecture and its unique collection of works of art, including paintings, choir stalls, reredos, tombs and stained-glass windows.
Photo by Charlotte Blanchet – Lotus Blanc