Southwell Minster

We spent a couple of nights in Southwell, a Thursday and a Monday, and I did several walks around the old town, looking mainly at its Minster (cathedral).

Southwell Minster from the west; a pretty standard British cathedral in overall
structure and history, though begun a bit later than some of the others

View from nave; well, near the front of the nave...there was very impressive photo
exhibition going on in the back half

Screen, looking into chancel

Elevation: heavy-duty-sized piers, Romanesque arches,
gallery, tiny clerestory with circular window configuration;
wood ceiling

Choir practice in the choir; other side of the great screen, and the organ

In the chapter house

There are some fine carvings of plants in the chapter house;
this is absolutely the only human figure not defaced by
Cromwell's folk

What kind of sick and twisted mind would deface a bunny?
Maybe they thought it was the Easter Bunny and therefore
a religious icon?

On display elsewhere...a 1582 map of Paris

Gifts to the Minster duly noted

Thus; a set of chimes plus, importantly, funding in perpetuity
(at 1693 rates, presumably) for operations and maintenance