Durham Cathedral

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When visiting Durham England last month, my wife and I stayed at our daughters flat which is right in the centre of town and but a 4 or 5 minute walk to Durham Cathedral. The cathedral is an incredible building and is the largest and most perfect monument of ‘Norman’ style architecture in England. Construction began in 1093 AD and was largely completed by 1133 AD. So the folks of Durham have been looking at that particular building for some 875 years. Its location is dramatic. Its west end towers over a precipitous gorge over the river Wear. The northern front of the Cathedral faces onto a green where the full 496 foot length from west to east can be seen.

Needless to say, I took a lot of pictures of the Cathedral such as the one on the right (click on it to see it larger), but the best of them were taken on Christmas Day. That day was sunny and almost cloudless. An excellent day for a walkabout. As it is close to the shortest day of the year, the sun is never far from the horizon which makes for some interesting lighting.


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