The Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity

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THE CLOSE The Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity

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Cathedral and Cloisters. C11 onwards. Begun in 1096 by Herbert de Losinga after the see was transferred from Thetford. Lincolnshire Limestone, Barnack Stone (Cambridgeshire) and Caen Stone, brick. Lead covered roofs. Nave with aisles. Choir. North transept with chapel. South transept with vestry. Presbytery with aisles and ambulatory. South, north-east and south-east chapels. East chapel. Cloisters to south. 14 bays to nave and choir. Three bays transepts. Four bays presbytery plus ambulatory. West front re-modelled c1830 by Salvin. Norman aisle portals. West door arch with diagonally-set niches and shallow vaulting. Large nine-light perpendicular window above door. C14 south aisle windows with cusped intersecting tracery. Norman tripartite clerestory windows with taller central window and blind arcading. Transepts with corner turrets. Shafted windows and blind arcading in seven orders. Doorway in north transept with two orders of shafts. Relief sculpture above doorway of a Bishop with crozier. The south transept was restored and rebuilt by Salvin c1830. Presbytery has square-headed four-light windows to the aisles and large four-light C14 clerestory windows with flying buttresses between. Crossing tower with four orders of arcading and shafted clasping buttresses with turrets and C15 spirelets. C15 crocketed spire with lucarnes.

Cloisters C11 and 1297-1430. William and John Ramsey, masons of South Range. Barnack stone, lead roofs. Eleven bays by eleven bays, two storey. Each bay three-light open tracery openings, single foiled lancet above. Corners occluded by projecting buttresses. Lierne vaults to all sides. Enriched door surrounds to first and eighth bay of nave. Fine triple entrance to Chapter House, E. range, Lavatorium W. range. Upper part west wall has several circular windows circa 1050-1070. Vaulted undercrofts behind south range (song-school).

Listing NGR: TG2347608911