Print this page or go back to standard view.
HIM5263095: Peterborough Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, c1870. Peterborough Cathedral was consecrated in 1238. It is dedicated to Saints Peter, Paul and Andrew, statues of whom stand in front of the three gables of the building's west front. Two Tudor Queens of England were buried in the cathedral, Catherine of Aragon and Mary Queen of Scots, although the latter was reburied in Westminster Abbey in 1612. The interior of the cathedral was vandalised by Cromwell's troops in 1643 during the English Civil War. / Bridgeman Images
HIM5263090: Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, c1870. The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely is known locally as the ship of the Fens because of its prominent shape. The building was begun in 1083 by Abbot Simeon. In 1322 the cathedral's Norman crossing tower collapsed. It was replaced by the octagonal lantern tower for which Ely is most famous, which was designed by Alan of Walsingham, the cathedral's sacrist, and completed in 1351. / Bridgeman Images