Ripon Cathedral Pulpitum Sculpture 3
One of the sculptures along the pulpitum which divides the nave of Ripon Cathedral.
The pulpitum separates the choir and high altar from the rest of the nave and dates from after the main tower collapsed on top of the original in 1450.
The statues in the niches date from 1947, replacing others destroyed in the 16th and 17th centuries and they represent figures from the cathedral's history.
Ripon Cathedral dates back to 672AD, when it was founded in the small North Yorkshire market town by St Wilfrid, the original crypts of which can still be found beneath the present structure, which dates back to the 12th century.
The cathedral was built under the patronage of Archbishop Roger de Pont l’Eveque in the transitional style – an architectural school that contains both Norman and Early English Gothic style points.
The Minster was one of the earliest Gothic structures in Europe and was expanded over the following centuries, with much of the church rebuilt when the central tower collapsed in 1450.
There is an ornately-decorated pulpitum which divides the nave and transepts from the choir and high altar and which also houses the organ in its loft.
Ripon Cathedral Pulpitum Sculpture 3
One of the sculptures along the pulpitum which divides the nave of Ripon Cathedral.
The pulpitum separates the choir and high altar from the rest of the nave and dates from after the main tower collapsed on top of the original in 1450.
The statues in the niches date from 1947, replacing others destroyed in the 16th and 17th centuries and they represent figures from the cathedral's history.
Ripon Cathedral dates back to 672AD, when it was founded in the small North Yorkshire market town by St Wilfrid, the original crypts of which can still be found beneath the present structure, which dates back to the 12th century.
The cathedral was built under the patronage of Archbishop Roger de Pont l’Eveque in the transitional style – an architectural school that contains both Norman and Early English Gothic style points.
The Minster was one of the earliest Gothic structures in Europe and was expanded over the following centuries, with much of the church rebuilt when the central tower collapsed in 1450.
There is an ornately-decorated pulpitum which divides the nave and transepts from the choir and high altar and which also houses the organ in its loft.