Tympanum, The Dean's Door, Ely Cathedral

[poliphilo]

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

You can still see the Byzantine influence!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's magnificent, isn't it!

And remarkably well preserved- seeing how East Anglia was Iconoclasm Central.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

That's what you get for being HQ of the Eastern association!

The chapter house door in Rochester survived I know not how when you consider the damage done to the west front!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I expect the guys with the hammers didn't always have local knowledge-and may have missed the odd statue here and there. Again, they may have got tired or run out of time.

I seem to remember reading somewhere about statues being spared after the godly iconoclast fell off his ladder.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

And the carvings down the sides? They are especially wonderful also.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They are, but...I don't have a picture :(

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

Is it just me or does that carving have a giant boner?

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

So thankful I wasn't the only one.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Of course not. He's got a sash round his middle and that's the knot and the two loose ends.

Silly boy!