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The father of the 19th century writer, Lewis Carroll, was a clergyman linked to Ripon Cathedral, a spectacular gothic Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire city of Ripon, England. Some of the imaginative scenes carved into the choir stalls – which date from between 1489 and 1494 – are said to have inspired Carroll when he came to write about Alice's adventures in Wonderland. A rabbit disappearing down a rabbit-hole, a griffin, and figures with heads and bodies, but with no legs, are amongst the features. There is also a Cheshire Cat feature high up in the South Transept.

The cathedral was built between the 13th and 16th centuries, but is the fourth building to have existed on this site. The first stone church was built as a Benedictine monastery by St Wilfrid in 672. Ripon is famed for its choir stalls and misericords - the wood carvings and canopies were restored to their former splendour in early 2020 with the completion of the first phase of a £120,000 restoration project.

Just below centre in the image can be seen some of the pipes of the cathedral's organ. It's a rebuild of the original Lewis instrument dating from 1878 and has casework by Sir George Gilbert Scott.

This photo was created by taking 9 shots with a fisheye lens and stitching them together to form a 188 megapixel spherical panorama that covers the entire 360˚ view, from floor to ceiling. Each frame was taken with 5 exposures to capture the full dynamic range from the bright windows to the dark corners. The spherical panorama was transformed to the 2D rectangle you see here using stereographic projection.

References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripon_Cathedral
www.riponcathedral.org.uk/what-to-see/

Taken on: August 5, 2020

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Camera: Canon EOS 90D, f/9.0, 2 sec, 10mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 90D
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	2
Focal Length:	10mm
ISO:	200
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 21.2 (Macintosh)
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