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If there is one place that is famous in the Seine-Maritime region, it is Saint-Georges de Boscherville Abbey. Its Romanesque style and authentic setting give it a very special charm. It is the result of a perfect blend of nature, art and history. Its roots are ancient, and it was built on a sacred site whose origin dates back to Gallo-Roman times.
The home of one of only four surviving copies of the Magna Carta, this 13th Century building is thought to be one of the leading examples of early English Architecture.
Réfectoire de la salle capitulaire des moines de l'Abbaye Notre-Dame-de-la-Roche de Lévis-Saint-Nom (78).
De style gothique, l'Abbaye fut fondée par Guy Ier de Lévis fin XIIe siècle après la croisade des Albigeois. L'église a été construite au XIIIe, les logis et communs datent du début du XVIIe. Elle possède notamment des culs de lampe représentant les vertus chrétiennes, les statues des premiers seigneurs et des stalles parmi les plus anciennes de France. Son déclin commença avec la guerre de Cent Ans. À la révolution, le domaine est vendu comme Bien National. En 1850, les Lévis Mirepoix restaurent l'abbaye, y accueille des orphelins et créent une école d'horticulture. Inscrite aux M.H. en 1926.
If there is one place that is famous in the Seine-Maritime region, it is Saint-Georges de Boscherville Abbey. Its Romanesque style and authentic setting give it a very special charm. It is the result of a perfect blend of nature, art and history. Its roots are ancient, and it was built on a sacred site whose origin dates back to Gallo-Roman times.
The Church and its chapels (La Iglesia de San Francisco), which were considered sacred places.
From right to left, in the San Francisco building, you can see the doors of the convent, the museum, the main church, the Chapel of Villacís and the Chapel of Cantuña.
Together, Church and Convent encompass three hectares including 13 cloisters (six of them major), three churches, and a large courtyard. In total, about 40,000 square meters of construction. San Francisco follows the classical typology of medieval monasteries. The main Church is the guiding axis and from there the cloister galleries extend: the refectory, the chapterhouse, and winery. These define a quadrangular courtyard, with the four respective pandas, or galleries: that of the chapter room, the refectory, the converts, and the mandatum. In addition to the basic dependencies of a convent, there were areas devoted to health care, education, crafts, a garden, and even a jail (to maintain strict discipline). The kitchen and dispensery operated in the cloister of services.
One of York Minster's architectural gems, the Chapter House contains some of the Minster's finest carvings and in 1297 was used as the location for the Parliament of King Edward I. The octagonal space dates from the 1280s and its magnificent vaulted ceiling is supported by timbers in the roof instead of a central column, which is the earliest example of its kind to use this revolutionary engineering technique.
The superb display of stained glass in the seven windows is believed to date from approximately 1290. Some damage was sustained in the seventeenth century from the Civil War and repairs and restorations occurred several times throughout the following centuries.
I created this image from a spherical panorama shot with a fisheye lens. However, in this version I've removed the fisheye distortion in post-production which results in an image much like those produced by regular rectilinear lenses. If that all sounds like a lot of messing about, you'd be right! But the advantage of doing this is that it allows the final image to cover a much wider angle of view than any rectilinear lens is capable of in one frame. In addition, the image is much higher resolution - even though the camera sensor I used is 32MP, the full size version of this image is 60MP. The level of detail is amazing and it can be printed at enormous sizes and still be viewed at close quarters with the same high definition as regular 6x4 inch prints.
Valle Crucis Abbey Ruin
Building work got underway in 1201. Eight centuries later and the abbey is one of the best preserved in Wales. Even the monks’ fishpond is still full of water!
From its cloister to chapter house, with striking rib-vaulted roof, this abbey was shaped by the devout nature of its inhabitants. The abbey was also remarkably self-sufficient thanks to the lay brethren. They were happy to leave the choir monks to their prayers while they got on with the job of tending the land. All friends together? Not quite. The monks observed their daily offices in the choir, separated by a screen from the lay brethren who worshipped in the nave of the abbey church.
Far from an easy life, Valle Crucis Abbey suffered a serious fire and numerous attacks but went on to earn a reputation for its appreciation of the literary arts. In 1535 it was ranked the second richest Cistercian monastery after Tintern. By this time, the Cistercians had relaxed their orthodox austerity. A comfortable heated suite was created for the abbot. This new found wealth and hospitality didn’t last long. Valle Crucis was duly dissolved by royal decree in 1537.
The Church and its chapels (La Iglesia de San Francisco), which were considered sacred places.
From right to left, in the San Francisco building, you can see the doors of the convent, the museum, the main church, the Chapel of Villacís and the Chapel of Cantuña.
Together, Church and Convent encompass three hectares including 13 cloisters (six of them major), three churches, and a large courtyard. In total, about 40,000 square meters of construction. San Francisco follows the classical typology of medieval monasteries. The main Church is the guiding axis and from there the cloister galleries extend: the refectory, the chapterhouse, and winery. These define a quadrangular courtyard, with the four respective pandas, or galleries: that of the chapter room, the refectory, the converts, and the mandatum. In addition to the basic dependencies of a convent, there were areas devoted to health care, education, crafts, a garden, and even a jail (to maintain strict discipline). The kitchen and dispensery operated in the cloister of services.
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Construction of the convent, the city’s largest colonial structure, began only a few weeks after the Spanish establishment of Quito in 1534, but wasn't finished for another 70 years. Although much of the church has been rebuilt because of earthquake damage, some is original. The chapel of Señor Jesús del Gran Poder, to the right of the main altar, has original tile work. The main altar itself is a spectacular example of baroque carving, while the roof shows Moorish influences.
The founder was Franciscan missionary Joedco Ricke, credited with being the first man to sow wheat in Ecuador.
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The founder of the church was Franciscan missionary Jodoco Ricke. The building's construction began around 1550, sixteen years after Quito was founded by Spanish conquistadors, and was finished in approximately 1680. The building was officially inaugurated in 1605. The main cloister was added in 1605. In fact the original smaller church constructed in the sixteenth century was reoriented and dramatically expanded in the early seventeenth century, at which time the imposing facade that we see today was added.
With the support of European Franciscans, the Flemish Friar Joost de Rijcke, known in Spanish as Jodoco Ricke and Friar Pedro Gosseal – who came to the city two years after its founding – acquired land to the west side of the city's main plaza. This plot was where the palace of the Incan ruler Atahualpa (1497-1533) had once stood. In addition to being a market center for indigenous Ecuadorians, it was also the location of the military seats of the chiefs of the indigenous armies. All told, the place had enormous strategic and historical significance for the indigenous people the Franciscans wanted to evangelize.
It is not known who designed the original plans for the complex, though the most-accepted theory is that they were sent from Spain, based on the topographical study of Ricke and Gosseal. It is also possible that architects came from Spain for the construction of the monastery, or that Ricke and Gosseal managed the entire construction.
The Church underwent a major (US$2M) interior renovation between 2000 and 2010.
San Francisco Square in the Historic Center of Quito.
From left to right, in the San Francisco building, you can see the doors of the Chapel of Cantuña, the Chapel of Villacísla, the main church, the convent and the museum.
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The Church and its chapels (La Iglesia de San Francisco), which were considered sacred places.
Together, Church and Convent encompass three hectares including 13 cloisters (six of them major), three churches, and a large courtyard. In total, about 40,000 square meters of construction. San Francisco follows the classical typology of medieval monasteries. The main Church is the guiding axis and from there the cloister galleries extend: the refectory, the chapterhouse, and winery. These define a quadrangular courtyard, with the four respective pandas, or galleries: that of the chapter room, the refectory, the converts, and the mandatum. In addition to the basic dependencies of a convent, there were areas devoted to health care, education, crafts, a garden, and even a jail (to maintain strict discipline). The kitchen and dispensery operated in the cloister of services.
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Walking from the Old Town’s narrow colonial streets into this open plaza reveals one of the finest sights in all of Ecuador: a sweeping cobblestone plaza backed by the mountainous backdrop of Volcán Pichincha, and the long, whitewashed walls and twin bell towers of Ecuador’s oldest church.
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The Public Square (Plaza de San Francisco) was a purely urban space, demarcated and connected to various public activities (teaching, market, water supply).
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Sad part of our History.
In pre-Hispanic Quito, the current lands of the Church and Convent of San Francisco were occupied by the royal palace of the Inca Huayna Cápac, before the advance of the armies commanded by the Spaniards from the south and the impossibility of defending the city the indigenous general Rumiñahui arranged the total destruction of it. In the city fire the palace was destroyed and buried under a huge amount of rubble and garbage. One of Rumiñahui's soldiers was the great-grandfather of the indigenous Cantuña, who as an eyewitness to the events had full knowledge of what was buried in the place. The construction of the church and convent of San Francisco began around 1537, just three years after the Spanish foundation of the city, with the completion of a provisional temple that was maintained until 1550, when construction of the current building began and which was completed around 1680. Although the building was officially inaugurated in 1705.
This photo was taken in the York Minster, located in York, England which is one of the largest cathedrals of its kind in northern Europe. One of York Minster's architectural gems is the Chapter House which is the specific location of this photo. The octagonal space dates from the 1280s and its magnificent, vaulted ceiling is supported by timbers in the roof, instead of a central column, which is the earliest example of its kind to use this revolutionary engineering technique.
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Regno Unito, Yorkshire, York, Autunno 2018
York Minster è una cattedrale di York, in Inghilterra, ed è una deelle più grandi del suo genere nel Nord Europa. La costruzione iniziò nel 1220 e la cattedrale fu dichiarata completa e consacrata nel 1472. Il titolo "Minster" era attribuito alle chiese del periodo anglosassone che istruivano i missionari, e adesso è solo un titolo onorifico. La cattedrale ha una navata gotica molto ampia e finemente decorata che contiene la finestra occidentale, (1338) e la grande finestra orientale (1408) che è la più grande vetrata medievale del mondo.
York Minster is a cathedral in York, England, and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The building began in 1220 and the cathedral was declared complete and consecrated in 1472.The title "minster" is attributed to churches established in the Anglo-Saxon period as missionary teaching churches, and serves now as an honorific title. The minster has a very wide Decorated Gothic nave which contains the West Window, (1338) and the Great East Window (1408),the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world.
York Minster is certainly one of the finest English churches with so much to enjoy . For me the Chapter House is its outstanding architectural feature . It was difficult to get a shot of the windows so I laid on the floor and took a shot upwards towards the apex of its remarkable ceiling
Work began in the early thirteenth century on the chapter house and its vestibule that links it to the north transept. The style of the chapter house is of the early Decorated Period where geometric patterns were used in the tracery of the windows, which were wider than those of early styles. The chapter house is octagonal, as is the case in many cathedrals, but is notable in that it has no central column supporting the roof. The wooden roof, which was of an innovative design, is light enough to be able to be supported by the buttressed walls.
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This photo shows the Chapter House off to the right. A chapter house or chapterhouse is a building or room that is part of a cathedral, monastery or collegiate church in which larger meetings are held. When attached to a cathedral, the cathedral chapter meets there. The one at Lincoln is used for exhibitions of all sorts whether on local art or on the abolition of the slave trade! It is also of particular interest architecturally as it is supported by a ring of supports called “Flying Buttresses “
Lincoln Cathedral is a Grade I Listed Building which was built between 1185 and 1311 and was the tallest building in the world for 249 years until 1549 when the central spire collapsed. It is the fourth largest cathedral in the U.K. after Liverpool, St.Pauls in London and the one at York.
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Aquesta és la antiga sala capitular de la abadia de Lacock. És una preciosa sala gòtica, on curiosament es van filmar escenes de Harry Potter i la Pedra Filosofal, com aquella del "mirall de Erised".
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La mansió de Lacock Abbey, al poble del mateix nom, al sud d'Anglaterra és un indret força especial. Com el seu nom indica, fins a la fi del monasticisme a Anglaterra, al s. XVI, era un convent catolic. A partir d'aquell moment fou comprat i rehabilitat com a mansió rural. De fora sembla el tipic palauet, però per dintre conserva bona part dels espais monastics d'estil gotic (però no l'església)
Si be en anys recents s'ha fet famós com un dels llocs on es va rodar Harry Potter, és molt més interessant per ser un dels llocs on s'inventà la fotografia. Dic un dels llocs perquè hi ha divesos llocs que ho poden dir, tant Paris mateix (daguerrotips) com Chalons-s.-Saone (heliografía).
Però fou aquí a Lacock Abbey on William Henry Fox Talbot, un ric terratinent britanic, va aconseguir el primer negatiu de la historia el 1835, i posteriorment ho perfeccionà cap al calotip, fotografia amb negatius de paper que es feu servir sobretot entre 1840 i 1880.
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This is the former chapter house of Lacock Abbey, and was used as such till the XVI Century. It's a beautiful, symmetrical gothic room. It's now also known as a filming location for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Specially the scene with the Mirror of Erised. Hence the intended pun with the title.
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The mansion of Lacock Abbey, in the village of the same name (Wiltshire) is a rather unique place. Especially for its photographic history.
As its name indicates, until the end of monasticism in England, in the XVI Century, it was a Catholic convent. From that moment it was bought and rehabilitated as a rural manor. From the outside it looks like a typical mansion, but inside it preserves a good part of the monastic spaces in the Gothic style (but not the church, which was razed)
If in recent years it has become famous as one of the places where Harry Potter was filmed (in those cloisters), it is much more interesting for being one of the places where photography was invented. I say one of the places because there are several places that can say it, both Paris itself (daguerreotype) and Chalons-s.-Saone (heliography). But here is all much more preserved as it was.
It was here at Lacock Abbey that William Henry Fox Talbot, a wealthy British landowner, obtained the first negative in history in 1835, and later perfected it into the calotype, paper negative photography, that was used mainly between 1840 and 1880 .
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These supports are called Flying Buttresses and a remarkable group of them surround the Chapter House part of Lincoln Cathedral.
This is a shot of the ceiling of the octagonal Chapter House of the York Minster in York. The construction of the Chapter House start in 1260. It's where the Dean and Chapter of York administer the cathedral, and as such is the only area not consecrated within the Minster. It is still used today for this purpose. Its design means that no-one is seated in a central position, and so everyone is equal and no-one can assume authority. The Chapter House is in the Decorated Gothic style and is unique as it does not have a central column to support the roof vaulting. The structure was complete by 1286.
This shot was taken handheld and later on processed in Photoshop doing a little dodging and burning to bring out the structure of the ceiling and to highlight some details.
Technical Details: Canon EOS 7D, 10-20mm, f/9.0, 0.05 sec (1/20), ISO 1600, -1 EV, 10 mm
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This is the stunning ceiling of Chapter House in York Minster. I ended up laying on the floor to get as much of the ceiling in as possible. This vaulted ceiling is supported by timbers in the roof instead of a central column.
Built between 1260 and 1280 it was pretty amazing at the time.
The Chapter House (or Chapterhouse) is a building or a room in which monks met in order to discuss the aspects of their life (e.g. the assigning of the tasks for the day).
This one is in the famous San Galgano Abbey, built in the valley of the river Merse between the towns of Chiusdino and Monticiano, in the province of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Construite au XIIIe siècle, cette salle qui servait aux réunions de l'abbé et de ses moines garde des traces de polychromie du XVe siècle.
This photo was taken in the York Minster, located in York, England which is one of the largest cathedrals of its kind in northern Europe. One of York Minster's architectural gems is the Chapter House which is the specific location of this photo. The octagonal space dates from the 1280s and its magnificent, vaulted ceiling (see my previous photo) is supported by timbers in the roof, instead of a central column, which is the earliest example of its kind to use this revolutionary engineering technique. Here you can see a section of the beautiful floor.
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This is a super-wide-angle view of the Chapter House in Lincoln Cathedral, England. It seems to have become quite a sought after location for movie sets, having been used for the filming of The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks in August 2005 where, along with the cloisters, it took on the role of Westminster Abbey, as the Abbey had refused to permit filming. To make the Lincoln Chapter House appear similar to the Westminster Chapter House, murals were painted on a special layer over the existing wall, and elsewhere polystyrene replicas of Isaac Newton's tomb and other Abbey monuments were set up. For a time these murals and replicas remained in the Chapter House, as part of a Da Vinci Code exhibit for visitors, but in January 2008 they were all sold off in an auction to raise money for the cathedral.
The cathedral also doubled as Westminster Abbey for the film Young Victoria, filmed in September 2007, and again in June 2018 for the Netflix Shakespeare film The King. In 2019 the cathedral was featured in the Amazon motoring television series The Grand Tour, during which the presenters hosted a funeral for the mid-size Ford saloon as part of the third season's final episode.
Lincoln Cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the High Middle Ages. It is the fourth largest cathedral in the UK (in floor area) at around 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft), after Liverpool, London St Paul's and York Minster. Like many of the medieval cathedrals of England it was built in the Early Gothic style.
Although the piano looks very small in this photo, it's really an optical illusion created by the stereographic projection I've used to render this spherical panorama. The piano is actually a regular-sized grand piano and the Chapter House is quite a small room. The nature of stereographic projection is that the outer parts of the image are stretched and become disproportionately large compared to the central area.
Wenlock Priory, Much Wenlock, South Shropshire
Wenlock Priory Coordinates... 52.59739°N 2.55506°W
Wenlock Priory; the standing structural, earthwork and buried remains of a Cluniac Priory built between 1140 and 1180 and largely rebuilt from 1200 to 1240. Included are earlier, buried Roman remains adapted for use as a pre-Cluniac Saxon monastery.
The earliest upstanding remains on the site include the Chapter House and parts of the Lavatorium and Dormitory range. The Infirmary Hall and Reredorter also date from this period, but are in domestic use and listed at Grade I and excluded from the scheduling. The Chamber Block to the west of the Reredorter is also in domestic use and also listed at Grade I and excluded from the scheduling.
The CHAPTER HOUSE measures approximately 15m by 8m. Walls to the north, south and west sides rise to almost their full height, including the springing of the ribs, but the vault of three bays does not survive. The front to the cloister has three arches; a central doorway flanked by windows. Each had nook shafts which have now gone, but the arches have rich moulding of chevron and scallops dotted with pellets. Inside, the flank walls have a plain dado against which the monks sat, above which are three tiers of intersecting arches, carved in relief and supported by miniature columns.
Immediately to the south of the chapter house is the DORMITORY range. Survival is fragmentary above ground and confined to the blank west gable end which stands to nearly full height.
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The remnants of Cockersands Abbey by the Lune Estuary on the West Coast of Lancashire. This Chapter House is the last recognisable structure left of the Abbey founded back in 1180's. The Abbey was dissolved in 1539 although this Chapter House (built in 1230) was used as a Mausoleum for the Dalton family of nearby Thurnham Hall during the 18th and 19th Centuries.
On the coast just to the right of the building you can make out the diminutive Plover Scar Lighthouse marking the entrance to the River Lune from the broad arch of Morecambe Bay.
Die 1124 - 1242 erbaute Kathedrale wurde im Volksmund „The Lantern of the North“ – die Leuchte des Nordens – genannt und war damals die größte Kathedrale Schottlands. Sie wurde durch mehrere Brände und in den Wirren der Reformation zerstört. Das dazugehörige Kapitelhaus wurde nach einem Brand 1270 erbaut und zwischen 1482 und 1501 erneuert. Es ist größtenteils erhalten.
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The cathedral—dedicated to the Holy Trinity—was established in 1224. After a damaging fire in 1270, a rebuilding programme greatly enlarged the building, but again destroyed by an extensive fire damage in 1390. By the time of the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the cathedral was abandoned.
A mostly intact octagonal chapter house dates from the major enlargement after the fire of 1270. Probably the last important rebuilding feature was the major restructuring of the chapterhouse between 1482 and 1501.
From the Ante-Chapter-House a curved passage leads to one of the most admirable areas of Spanish Renaissance architecture: the Chapter-House of the Cathedral. It was begun in 1558 under the direction of the architec Hernán Ruiz II and was finished by Asensio de Maeda in 1592.
The layout of this area is elliptical so that all the members of the cathedral chapter were perfectly visible at their meetings where the problems of the spiritual and material government of the church were brought up and discussed. The oval vaulting in one simple unit helps the voice to carry and has exceptional acoustics. The need for hearing and seeing required in the meetings of the numerous clergy was thus satisfactorily solved, but at the same time the wall decoration of the Chapter-House consists of a complex series of pictures and figures to emphasize the virtues expected of those who came to meet there so that their exchange of ideas and opinions would take place in an atmosphere of harmony and concerd. The walls therefore show a moral code for the canons to observe in their chapter meetings. The composition of pictures and figures designed by the canon Francisco Pacheco includes a seies of sculptures ans paintings with Latin inscriptions referring to the meanings of the images. All this decoration appears in the second section of the Hall, and the first to be seen between the pedestals of the columns are painted versions of the Virtues, among which Justice, Charity, Faith, Compassion and Hope can be identified. These virtues are female figures, some of which represent Saints at the same time, such as St Barbara, St Katherine, St Lucy and St Agnes. These paintings were carried out by Pablo de Céspedes in 1592.
The authors of the large vertical reliefs between the columns are Juan Bautista Vázquez el Viejo and Diego de Velasco who made them approximately between 1582 and 1582. They show The Assumption of the Virgin, Two Miracles of St John the Evangelists, The cleasing of the Temple, The Heavenly Father with the Vintagers, The seven Angels calling the Damned, The Ectasy of St John Evangelist and The Allegory of the Mystic Lamb. The rectangular reliefs were carried out by Marcos Cabrera around 1590 and show The last Sermon of Jesus Christ, Daniel in the Lions´Den, Christ´s Baptism, The Storm in the Sea of Tiberias, The Parable of the Sower, Christ,s Agony in the Garden, St Peter contemplating the unclean Animals and Christ washing the Feet of the Apostles.
In the vault there is a magnificent series of paintings by Murillo who was commissioned by the Chapter in 1667. In a splendid carved frame everything centres on La Inmaculada, which may be considered among the most beautiful the artist made of the subject. Painted on circular canvases around the vault there is a series of eight Seville Saints who can be identified by the name on the signs. They are San Hermenegildo, San Fernando, San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Laureano, Santa Justa, Santa Rufina and San Pio. The Chapter-House centres on a magnificent mahogany armchair which was carved by the sculptor Diego de Velasco in 1592. Before it there is the secretary´s bench, also of excellent design by the same artist.
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This is the Chapter House in Lincoln Cathedral, England. It seems to have become quite a sought after location for movie sets, having been used for the filming of The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks in August 2005 where, along with the cloisters, it took on the role of Westminster Abbey, as the Abbey had refused to permit filming. To make the Lincoln Chapter House appear similar to the Westminster Chapter House, murals were painted on a special layer over the existing wall, and elsewhere polystyrene replicas of Isaac Newton's tomb and other Abbey monuments were set up. For a time these murals and replicas remained in the Chapter House, as part of a Da Vinci Code exhibit for visitors, but in January 2008 they were all sold off in an auction to raise money for the cathedral.
The cathedral also doubled as Westminster Abbey for the film Young Victoria, filmed in September 2007, and again in June 2018 for the Netflix Shakespeare film The King. In 2019 the cathedral was featured in the Amazon motoring television series The Grand Tour, during which the presenters hosted a funeral for the mid-size Ford saloon as part of the third season's final episode.
Lincoln Cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the High Middle Ages. It is the fourth largest cathedral in the UK (in floor area) at around 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft), after Liverpool, London St Paul's and York Minster. Like many of the medieval cathedrals of England it was built in the Early Gothic style.