Another Walk Round My City

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We again started off at the cathedral ... and there were a few more things I discovered.



Hard to see in this image, but the cathedral was designed that no 2 windows were alike ... all beautiful, but all different.


The north door, which until WWI did not have statues.  The Bishop at the time had 3 soms who served in France, and returned home, so he paid for the statues as a thanks to God.  The are the patron saints of the allies (although ironically 2 of them were enemies during WWII)


St George (patron saint of England)


St Denis (patron sain of France)


One of the earliest parts of the cathedral built in 1114


At the top of the Cathedral is the patron saint ... Saint Peter.  Apparaently done as a nude as he was a fisherman that is how Jesus would have known him while he was working.

One of the other Churches we went to was St Olave's, which was founded in 1053 by the mother of King Harold II












We were shown where a lot of cemeteries were in the city and reminded that there are still literally thousands of bodies under our feet. However our final stop was at the Catacombs, built in Victorian times but very under-utilised due to the costs involved.


















This is in the location of the alter of the first Cathedral  ... a parish Church was built on the location but removed last century as they aimed to build a car-park, although were unable to do it due to the graves & the archeology (there are Roman Baths here).  This is in front of the Cathedral.