by Helen Kain | Mar 11, 2023 | Cathedrals, England
Bury St Edmunds is a gorgeous little market town in Suffolk, East Anglia with a very colourful history. Originally known as Beodericsworth (thank goodness some place names became simpler over time), Bury St Edmunds owes its modern name to two very different things....
by Helen Kain | Mar 10, 2023 | Cathedrals, England
Canterbury Cathedral is magnificent in and of itself. Still, it’s probably most famous for being the site of the murder of Thomas à Becket, the Archbishop who repeatedly clashed with King Henry II (husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a pretty powerful woman in her...
by Helen Kain | Mar 9, 2023 | Cathedrals, England
The diminutive Carlisle Cathedral is the most northerly of the medieval cathedrals and larger than only Derby Cathedral, the smallest. Throughout the middle ages, the town of Carlisle was the site of constant border skirmishes between the Scots and the English, and...
by Helen Kain | Mar 8, 2023 | Cathedrals, England
The Church of St. Mary the Virgin became Chelmsford Cathedral following a cranky contest in 1913 to choose a suitable site for the new Cathedral to serve East London. Unfortunately, funds proved short, so plans for a new building were quickly abandoned, but in 1923,...
by Helen Kain | Mar 8, 2023 | Cathedrals, England
A former Benedictine Abbey set in a walled Norman city, Chester Cathedral, has the works. Its architecture comprises 11th-century Norman to 18th-century Gothic revival and every style in between. Chester, a cathedral city (obviously), has some of the best-preserved...
by Helen Kain | Mar 6, 2023 | Cathedrals, England
If Exeter Cathedral is a sumptuous white wedding gown, Chichester Cathedral is a grey morning suit with a particularly vibrant waistcoat. Chichester Cathedral’s predecessor, Selsey Abbey, was founded in 681 by the irascible Wilfred of Ripon, famous for...
