Cathedral
Description:
Chester Cathedral is the cathedral of the Diocese of Chester in Chester, Cheshire, England.
At first it was the church of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Verburg in the episcopal it was transformed in 1541, at the time when the monastery was abolished by Henry VIII.
The cathedral is built of reddish sandstone with centuries of stone acquired a pale pink hue. The structure has a cross-shaped plan, the transept and the cloister adjacent from the north and the refectory are elongated. The length of the building is 114 m, and the width is 60 m. Almost no trace remains of the ancient Norman church, because in the eleventh century it was so decayed that it had to be rebuilt immediately. At the beginning of the XIII century, the construction of the choir and the central tower was completed - its height is estimated at 60 meters soon after that the chapel of Our Lady and the house of the chapter were completed. In the XIX century, the cathedral was completely restored by the project of Gilbert Scott.