Archive for the tag 'cloisters'
Filed under Gloucester 2023, Heritage, Holidays
Cloisters, Lavatorium and Fan Vaulting – Gloucester Cathedral
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 2nd 2023
Filed under Gloucester 2023, Holidays
Gloucester – Day One
We had intended to set off around 10am but had run a little behind schedule. As we were just about ready to leave, the phone rang which contributed to us leaving nearly an hour later than we had intended.
We consulted ‘The Extra Mile’ book to find a suitable place for lunch and settled on Ferns [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 24th 2023
Filed under Colwall 2016, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays
Gloucester Cathedral – Cloister Lavatorium
The lavatorium (‘washing place’) in the north walk of the cloister is decorated with a delightful small-scale fan vault. The trough with its drainage holes would have been lead-lined, and on the shelf behind there would have been lead tanks with taps at the front. The lavatorium was used for hand-washing before meals. The whole [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 7th 2016
Gloucester’s great Cloister is famous for its magnificent fan vaulting, which is believed to be the earliest example in England.
Originally built to house the monks, it provided space for them to live, work and meditate. In many abbeys, the cloisters were traditionally built on the south side, but at Gloucester, it unusually lies on the [...]
19 Comments CherryPie on Mar 4th 2016
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Oxford 2014
Christ Church Oxford
Christ Church was originally founded by Cardinal Wolsey as Cardinal’s College in 1524. The college buildings took over the site of St. Frideswide’s Monastery, which was suppressed by Wolsey to fund his college
The monastery dated back to the earliest days of Oxford as a settlement in the 9th Century AD. When Wolsey fell from power [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 10th 2015
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Behind the Chapel…
…lies an older place of worship.
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2014
Salisbury Cathedral has the largest cloisters of any British Cathedral.
The cloisters were started as a purely decorative feature only five years after the cathedral building was completed, with shapes, patterns, and materials that copy those of the cathedral interior.
It was an ideal opportunity in the development of Early English Gothic architecture, and Salisbury Cathedral made [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 9th 2014
