Ely Cathedral
Romanesque and Gothic cathedral crowned by a unique timber-and-lead octagonal lantern over the crossing.
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This guide to Ely Cathedral, near Cambridge, centres on a February day in thirteen twenty-two and the Norman tower that stood over the crossing where you are now. It follows Alan of Walsingham, a monk newly put in sole charge of the building, and the question of what a man does when the thing he is responsible for comes down. Along the way you'll hear a fellow monk's account of how he took it. Best heard standing at the very centre of the octagon, beneath the lantern.
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