At Ely, as at many other monasteries and cathedrals ... but because the Octagon was larger than the old crossing tower, the new section had only three bays, not four. The architecture of the ...

Ely, a city in Cambridgeshire some 14 miles north-northeast of Cambridge, is home to around 19,000 people - as well as a magnificent Cathedral. Originally founded as an abbey church in 673 AD ...

A roof doubles up as a climbing wall and one section is made of rope ladders. In place of the almost 300 steps to get down Ely Cathedral, this one is decked out with a slide, shortening the ...

Ely's annual Flower Festival starts on Thursday and the Cathedral is already blooming as 100 displays take shape. This year the Festival is themed 'Kaleidoscope of Life'. It opens on Thursday 21 ...

It should have been an easy job for the sound team of “Maestro” — Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony played in England’s Ely Cathedral. Normally they would pre-record the music and run ...

Ely’s nave was built in the early 12th century ... Every part of the ground-plan and elevation was set out using ratios such as the Golden Section ...' One bay to the east was the stone pulpitum ...

These are similar to the patterns in the 12th-century painting on a nearby section of the south aisle vault. The monks didn’t do stone carving or wall-painting (that was done by professional ...