Lincoln Madonna & Child

Lincoln Cathedral

Limestone

South transept (above) and altar (below).

"Lincoln Cathedral is one of the few English cathedrals built from the rock on which it stands. It is mostly built from Lincolnshire Limestone. The cathedral has owned the existing quarry, on Riseholme Road, Lincoln, since 1876. As of 2016, the quarry was expected to run out of stone in 2021. The cathedral's stonemasons use more than 100 tonnes of stone per year for maintenance and repairs." -- Wikipedia

Lincoln Cathedral

After singing the midday concert at Selby Abbey, we made a stop at Lincoln Cathedral on our way to Cambridge. Lincoln is where the fellow who helped arrange our tour from the England side studied and sang as a student.

"The earliest parts of the current building date to 1072, when bishop Remigius de Fécamp moved his seat from Dorchester on Thames to Lincoln. The building was completed in 1092, but severely damaged in an earthquake in 1185. It was rebuilt over the following centuries in different phases of the Gothic style, with significant surviving parts of the cathedral in Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular." - Wikipedia

Old Sacristy

Robing in Selby Abbey's Old Sacristy before our midday concert.