The West Front, Lincoln Cathedral.

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Bishop Remigius, Cathedrals, Church architecture, Church of England., Churches, Lincoln Cathedral, medieval, Medieval England, Middle Ages, Norman, Romanesque, stone, stone carving, West Front Lincoln Cathedral

According to “Harris’s Guide to Churches & Cathedrals“, “The West front was built 1075 – 92 by Bishop Remigius and has been partially covered by a later Gothic screen”. Lincoln Cathedral’s website informs me that Bishop Remigius was a Benedictine monk and the first Norman Bishop of Lincoln, the largest Diocese in Medieval England.

Photo Archive: Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, c.2010.

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Abbey, Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, Monastery, Romanesque, Ruins

Kirkstall Abbey
Abbey Road
Leeds.

The West Front, Lincoln Cathedral.

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Churches, Lincoln, Lincoln Cathedral, Norman, Romanesque, stone carving

These carving on what Batsford and Fry describe as “The Norman Core” of the West Front in their “The Cathedrals of England” have always fascinated me. I have been a regular visitor to Lincoln over the years and, even if I do not enter the Cathedral, I will always find time to marvel at the Romanesque friezes and these fantastical carvings, which surround the West Doors.

These photographs date from 2007, but photographs of the West Front appear quite regularly in my photograph albums.