Map of Ely city |
The Almonry Cafe for Coffee and Biscuits |
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An elderly volunteer repairing the wall |
"Meridiana" by Helaine Blumenfeld |
The Eastern End of the Cathedral |
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Northern aspect |
West Front |
West Door |
Kings School, Old Palace - their Six Form Centre |
Tawdry in the 17th century was short for tawdry lace, a fine silk
lace or ribbon worn as a necklace in the 16th–17th centuries, a
contraction of St Audrey's lace. Audrey was a later form of
Etheldreda (died 679), patron saint of Ely where tawdry laces, along
with cheap imitations and other cheap finery, were traditionally sold at
a fair. |
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An ad for Helaine Blumenfeld's exhibition of
sculptures around the Cathedral |
Meridiana (bronze) |
The Nave |
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Tree of Life |
Bishop James Russell Woodford |
Patent Heater |
The Lantern above the Octagon |
The Octagon spreads the buildings weight out
over soft ground |
Bishop William Selwyn |
Towards the High Altar |
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A Lunchtime violin recital |
The Noah Window |
The Location Log of our walk via GPS |
Phantom soldier |
St Georges Chapel |
The Lady Chapel |
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St Etheldreda
(Æthelthryth, Ediltrudis, Audrey) (d.679), queen and
abbess of Ely. She was the daughter of Anna, king of East Anglia.
At an early age she was married to Tondberht, ealdorman of the South
Gyrwas, but remained a virgin. On his death she retired to the Isle of
Ely, her dowry. In 660, for political reasons, she was married to
Egfrith, the young king of Northumbria who was then only 15 years old
and several years younger than her. He agreed that she should remain a
virgin but 12 years later he wished their marital relationship to be
normal. Etheldreda refused and left him and became a nun and founded a
monastery at Ely in 673. Etheldreda restored an old church at Ely
and built her monastery on the site of what is now Ely Cathedral. After
its restoration in 970 by Ethelwold it became the richest abbey in
England except for Glastonbury due to pilgrims visiting her shrine as
her body had been found uncorrupted and she was Sanctified. Etheldreda's
monastery flourished for 200 years until it was destroyed by the Danes.
It was refounded as a Benedictine community in 970, dissolved by Henry
VIII and improvements continued after the restoration of Charles II
until Victorian times |
The free standing Lady Chapel |
All the saints had been decapitated and the
Gargoyles damaged.... |
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Exodus II (Bronze) |
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Destiny II (Wood) |
In Remembrance |
Marble Spiral Staircase to the Organ loft |
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A Rood Screen |
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St Eltheldreda |
Many snappers there |
A lot of the stonework was coloured
originally |
No vest! |
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Organ Pipes |
A fine door |
The Choir |
Sir Robert Steward |
What is happening? |
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The Ascension |
Watching |
The Pulpit |
Snooty |
The South Door |
Brass Eagle Lectern |
West Front, Early English Gothic |
West Door |
Deans House on the Green |
Resting |
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The "Minster Tavern" for lunch |
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Cathedral Northgate |
On "Waterside" |
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The Ely Market |
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The "Royal Standard" |
"Quayside" on the Great Ouse |
A Boat Lift |
The Maltings |
Narrow Boats |
An Ely Eel in Jubilee Gardens |
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Looking at the North side across Deans
Meadows |
A Cathedral Gatehouse |
Demons |
Oliver Cromwell's House |
Quakers at the door |
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Cathedral external decoration details |
Romanesque Arch |
The Route to the Cross with floor Labyrinth
in the Vestibule
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We looked round the Stained Glass Museum |
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Enamel work |
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Painted details |
The Seven Ages of man. NB Daily Mirror |
Elders of the Church |
The Priest and the Levite, right |
The two Marys |
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A Jolly Lion |
NB The "Observer" |
Barber Surgeons? going at it Hammer and
Tongs |
The Tale of the Prodigal son, left |
A lot of lead was used |
Monkey Vice Panel from Tenier's paintings |
A Fairy tale |
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Siren by Pauline Boty |
Inner Space by Paul San Casciani |
Self Portrait by Debora Coombs |
The steep way out |
The Ely Town Crest |
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The Bishops Palace from the coach before we
set off for home |
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