Great Mistakes at Lichfield Cathedral

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @cameramao2716
    @cameramao2716 3 роки тому +2

    I live here and almost grew up in that cathedral, it is a work of art but I find it amusing to keep finding little facts like this to add to the secret toilets and etched-up choir-boy room walls I already have seen. Did you know there are peregrine falcons roosting in the central tower?

  • @Zethanie
    @Zethanie 3 роки тому +2

    Good eyes for the delightfully organic approximated symmetry; which, is also a means of structural stability abundantly present in flowers & the like.

  • @gazalan2234
    @gazalan2234 3 роки тому +1

    😂 I live 5 mins from the cathedral. It’s an amazing building. I had no idea it had all of those “ anomalies”, and I shall go and take a look and have a laff at them. Surprised about the statues around the outside being Victorian.
    Really enjoyed the video, great job.

  • @normanchristie4524
    @normanchristie4524 4 роки тому +3

    I habe just revisited your analysis of Lichfield Cathedral. Really enjoyed your observations; It is a truly ‘wonky’ build but that is what makes It LICHFIELD! A bit like it’s inhabitants.

  • @brandtnightingale9163
    @brandtnightingale9163 6 років тому +2

    5:39 Oh yes. I do appreciate the nave at Lichfield. Thank you for mentioning it

  • @robertlimestone6248
    @robertlimestone6248 3 роки тому +2

    The whole thing needs a pressure steam wash to clean all the green mold and black soot off.

    • @DrWrapperband
      @DrWrapperband 3 роки тому +1

      I thought that once but now seeing new walls quickly succumb to black "mold" in rainy Oldham - I don't think it is soot. Also, pressure washing removes the surface of the stone to remove the mold, not a good idea long term.

  • @cheetoboiiii8212
    @cheetoboiiii8212 2 роки тому +1

    I was a chorister here.

  • @chriscoughlan5221
    @chriscoughlan5221 10 місяців тому

    Its always bloody closed when i am in town!!!

  • @MH-ms1dg
    @MH-ms1dg 2 роки тому

    it's amazing how you read cathedrals like an open, typo-filled book (reading between the lines of "prayers in stone", so to speak)

  • @acemic2050
    @acemic2050 4 роки тому +1

    great video. thanks

  • @nicolawebb6025
    @nicolawebb6025 3 роки тому

    According to a tour I took years ago, Lichfield was besieged during the Civil Wars. As a result it was heavily damaged and I believe one of the towers (can't remember which one) collapsed under canon fire. It had significant renovation afterwards

  • @MH-ms1dg
    @MH-ms1dg 2 роки тому

    I know you focus on English cathedrals (and there are so many more to do), but would you ever do French cathedrals too?

  • @user-cv6fp2gy3s
    @user-cv6fp2gy3s 3 роки тому

    Well I was up there the other day, and everything seemed fine.

  • @daveunbelievable6313
    @daveunbelievable6313 3 роки тому

    when they replaced the vaults in the nave with plaster did they also replace the ribs between the vaults, they do still look quite Stoney. Litchfield cathedral is very continental, a better effort at a more French church that Westminster abbey, which is ugly to the max

  • @YuRiSunga
    @YuRiSunga 4 дні тому

    5:21

  • @garybowen7057
    @garybowen7057 3 роки тому

    Well fancy that. I didn't know that ;)

  • @gervaisfrykman266
    @gervaisfrykman266 4 роки тому

    How about the ribs in the vault of the nine altars at Durham? Drastic but not a mistake. How about the tower at Durham, and at Howden too? They built fine towers and then decided they should be taller, so they put a bit more on the top. Mistake! The additions make the towers worse. How about the fine window next to the demolished North Transept at Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire? The left hand surround viewed from outside is missing some components that are present on the right hand side. Mistake? No. The window was originally in a tight corner between the aisle and a chapel attached to the transept. When the chapel was demolished the window was reused. Llandaff Cathedral Presbytery, south side. The North side was reconstructed in the 14th Century as an arcade of two arches. On the south side was an earlier transept chapel. They could have demolished the chapel, or retained it and satisfied themselves with a single arch. But they crammed in the easternmost of a two arch arcade, starved of space, but still couldn't finish it because they hadn't decided to demolish the chapel. So they gave up. The fragmentary 14th century western arch intersects with Norman elements that were being replaced. Very interesting as regards building methods, but as a piece of design, it is the worst of all possible worlds. Mistake!

  • @DarrenVelSatis
    @DarrenVelSatis 5 років тому

    due to 6:37 I can't use this video

  • @judithpovey9208
    @judithpovey9208 3 роки тому

    I dont believe it!