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 ...

The city of Ely is a marvellous place, with much of its fame deriving from the iconic Norman cathedral that sits atop a hill, and can be seen in the skyline for miles around. The building has ...

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 ...

A cathedral is marking the anniversary of the collapse of its bell tower, which "fell with much crashing and banging" 700 years ago today. The Benedictine monks of Ely Abbey, in present day ...

The adult birds first arrived at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire in 2019 and returned again earlier this year. Four chicks hatched in May and a camera, set up near the nest, caught some of their ...

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 ...

However, Cambridge isn’t the only city in the region which is picture perfect and a cathedral city with a rich history. Ely, Cambridgeshire, is just 14 miles northeast of its more famous sibling ...

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 ...