Lichfield Cathedral Nave (detail)

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Lichfield Cathedral Nave (detail)
Lichfield Cathedral Nave (detail)

This is the nave at Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire, England. Dedicated to St Chad and Saint Mary, this magnificent gothic cathedral was built between 1195 and 1340. It's the only medieval English cathedral with three spires. Its internal length is 113 m (371 ft), and the breadth of the nave, pictured here, is 21 m (69 ft). The central spire is 77 m (253 ft) high and the western spires are about 58 m (190 ft).

The stone is sandstone and came from a quarry on the south side of Lichfield. The walls of the nave lean outwards slightly, due to the weight of stone used in the ceiling vaulting; some 200–300 tons of which was removed during renovation work to prevent the walls leaning further.

Lichfield suffered severe damage during the English Civil War of 1642–1651, in which all of the stained glass was destroyed. In spite of this, the windows of the Lady Chapel contain some of the finest medieval Flemish painted glass in existence. Dating from the 1530s, it came from the Abbey of Herkenrode in Belgium, in 1801, having been purchased by Brooke Boothby when that abbey was dissolved during the Napoleonic Wars.

In February 2003, an eighth-century sculpted panel of the Archangel Gabriel was discovered under the nave of the cathedral. The 600mm tall panel is carved from limestone, and originally was part of a stone chest, which is thought to have contained the relics of St Chad. The panel was broken into three parts but was still otherwise intact and had traces of red pigment from the period. The pigments on the Lichfield Angel correspond closely to those of the Lichfield Gospels which have been dated to around 730AD. The Angel was first unveiled to the public in 2006, when visitor numbers to the cathedral trebled. After being taken to Birmingham for eighteen months for examination, it is now exhibited in the cathedral.

Canon EOS 90D
Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM @ 10mm
5s | 1.3s | 0.3s | 1/13s | 1/50s (+4/+2/0/-2/-4EV)
f/9
ISO 200
Stitching & reprojection: PTGui Pro
Exposure blending and tonemapping: Aurora HDR

Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichfield_Cathedral

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Camera: Canon EOS 90D, f/9.0, 1.3 sec, 10mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)
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Exposure Time: 1.3
Focal Length: 10mm
ISO: 200
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop 21.2 (Macintosh)
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