Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln Minster, or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln and sometimes St Mary's Cathedral, in Lincoln, England, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the High Middle Ages. Like many of the medieval cathedrals of England it was built in the Early Gothic style.
The Lincoln cathedral held the record of the tallest in the world from 1311 to 1548. It was the second tallest building in the world after the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
It has a length height of 147 metres with width size of 24 metres.
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Continue reading let's talk about 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Lincoln Cathedral
1.The Bishop doesn’t get the best seat in the house
Whilst the Bishop is the chief pastor of the Diocese of Lincoln, he merely sits in the Cathedral. It’s the Dean of the Cathedral, currently The Very Reverend Christine Wilson who is, as it were, in charge.
2.Lincoln Cathedral is double glazed.
Sort of… The Dean’s Eye window in the north transept of the Cathedral was subject to a 16 year £2m restoration which was completed in April 2006. It’s one of the finest examples of early 13th century English plate tracery in the world and contains mainly medieval glass.
Originally the glass was exposed to the elements, but following its restoration, it’s protected by a clear secondary isothermal ‘modern’ glazed window in front of it. This is exposed to the outside world. So technically the Cathedral is double glazed!
3.Construction of the Cathedral is a bit iffy in places!
Sacrilege, surely? The Cathedral is beautiful! Well yes, but there’s still some questionable construction in places. In particular, stand in the nave and look back at the West Front. When the current nave was created under St Hugh from 1190-1250, the masons worked back from the east in a westerly direction. When the nave’s ceiling reached the West Front, the ceiling didn’t line up. It’s about a metre out and visibly wonky!
Also the lancets to the north and south sides of the West Front are visibly uneven. So are the lancets below the Bishop’s Eye window. South-facing walls of the nave aisle have five arched lancets between pillars. The north side has four and a half lancets dissected by pillars.
4.The Cathedral is also held up by braces and concrete!
In the 1920s, the Cathedral’s south-west front tower was leaning. Rather a lot. In fact, the problem of a visible lean to the south was at one stage getting worse by about a sixteenth of an inch every day. Dean Fry began fundraising, estimating repairs at £50,000. By the time of his death, Fry had raised double that amount but still more would be needed. Delta bronze reinforcements were put into the West Front to arrest the Cathedral’s continuing structural problems.
Unfortunately as part of the works, the repairs also saw workers pumping concrete into the Cathedral’s cavities – a sort of cavity insulation – which we now know is less than ideal as limestone and concrete interact badly. Nearly 100 years on the concrete filler is crumbling, and the Cathedral once again faces the need to address structural preservation of the building.
5.The Cathedral’s limestone is coloured pink in places
After fire ravaged the Cathedral in the 1120s, the temperature reached over 300°c at which Lincolnshire Limestone turns pink. Masons investigating stonework in the aftermath scrawled an ‘X’ into the individual pink stones on the inside of the West Front. If the pink colour went too deep they were individually replaced, but if the colour was only to a superficial depth, the pink stones were retained. So, some of the internal stonework is bright pink!
The Lincoln Imp
The Lincoln Imp is a grotesque on a wall inside Lincoln Cathedral, England, and it has become the symbol of the city of Lincoln. A legend tells of it being a creature sent to the cathedral by Satan, only to be turned into stone by an angel.
According to a 14th-century legend, two mischievous creatures called imps were sent by Satan to do evil work on Earth. After causing mayhem in Northern England, the two imps headed to Lincoln Cathedral, where they smashed tables and chairs and tripped up the Bishop. When an angel came out of a book of hymns and told them to stop, one of the imps was brave and started throwing rocks at the angel, but the other imp cowered under the broken tables and chairs. The angel turned the first imp to stone, giving the second imp a chance to escape. It is said that even on still days it is always windy around the cathedral, which is the second imp circling the building looking for his friend.
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