The beautiful sunny morning tempted me to go for a walk into my home town of Worcester, the centre of which is just over a mile from where I live and all downhill ..... having got there I mingled with the crowds and spent most of the day wandering around, much like I did in London. I didn't intend to take many photos and didn't have a spare battery with me, but it lasted until I got back home in the evening so all went well. Here are some of the street scenes I took:
At the end of the High Street stands the famous cathedral, with a statue of the local composer Sir Edward Elgar facing it. There are lot's of building works in this area at the moment, redressing some of the awful 1960's buildings that were built facing the cathedral... I must admit I haven't been in Worcester Cathedral for years, though thanks to my Gran I was confirmed in there by the Bishop of Worcester way back in my teens, before I completely lost the plot where belief is concerned Worcester Cathedral has been described as possibly the most interesting of all England’s cathedrals, especially architecturally. It was founded it in 680. Saint Oswald then built another cathedral in 983, and established a monastery attached to it. Saint Wulfstan, who rebuilt the cathedral in 1084, began the present building. During Anglo-Saxon times, Worcester was one of the most important monastic cathedrals in the country. It was a centre of great learning, which continued into the later middle ages, when Worcester’s Benedictine monks went to university to study a variety of subjects, such as theology, medicine, law, history, mathematics, physics, and astronomy. Some of these medieval university textbooks still survive in the cathedral library today. The monastery continued until 1540 when Henry VIII dissolved it, and some of the last monks became the first Dean and Chapter. The cathedral was badly damaged in the civil wars, and as a consequence a major programme of rebuilding was required after the Restoration of Charles II. From the late seventeenth until the nineteenth centuries there were several campaigns to restore parts of the cathedral, but the Victorians from 1864-75 carried out the largest of these. Though the main Nave was closed because of the local University Graduation ceremony the rest of it was open, so here are some pics I took.
King John's Tomb A couple of guys from Romania who were very interested in the architecture More Tombs
It must be great to walk these streets and visit these places and not have huge crowds shoulder to shoulder with you all the time. You took some great photos @Terry Page and even if I never get to go to any of these places...you certainly take me there with your pictures. Thanks.
Absolutely fascinating pictures, @Terry Page ! As usual, of course...... your pictures are always interesting and awesomely well done. I have a question for you. The picture of the two men looking at the wall carvings. There is one of the carvings, just to the left of the men that I can't make out properly as a human. It looks like a partially naked person, but there appears to be two heads, and they look more like a goat head than a human being. Even the body looks odd to me. I am sure that it must be that I just can't see something correctly; so can you tell me what that sculpture is supposed to actually look like , please ?
I don't know the answer to that @Yvonne Smith but there are several carvings of goats in the cathedral, here is one where a woman is riding a goat with a rabbit under her arm. I will enquire about the other one when I am next in there.
The cathedral sits on the banks of the River Severn, and the gardens on the riverside face the west so catch the evening sun, here are a few photos: A busy squirrel.... To the south of the cathedral is the College Green originally a Benedictine monastery, now a public area