Peterborough Cathedral is one of the great Romanesque (aka Norman) cathedrals in Britain, nearly as old as Durham, and something we wanted to see. Peterborough itself was new to us, the new market center in the east, not at all a small city.
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| An abbey church first, of course, then a cathedral |
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Damn! We missed both the gin and rum festival and the prosecco and gin festival!
Hopefully we'll be back in May for the Everclear and absinthe festival! |
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| Pano of the beautiful old yard west of the cathedral |
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| Nave view |
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Painted wooden roof; last painted in the early 2000s, after a
nearly disastrous fire |
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Elevation; the usual huge gallery we are getting used to in
these English churches |
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Old Scarlett, the beloved town gravedigger, who buried two
generations and three queens: Mary Queen of Scots, Katherine
of Aragon, and his own wife, Margaret; he remarried the year
after she passed away, when he was 89; lived to be 98; in the
cathedral's interpretive program, you're always "digging deeper"
with Old Scarlett |
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| An aerial of the church, in its educational center |
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| Love the entwined arches |
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| And other possibly Celtic bits |
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| Quire |
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| Crossing |
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| Still pretty Romanesque, right? |
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| But then you get to the eastern-most and, behold, it's not Romanesque anymore! |
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| So not Romanesque! |
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