Southwell Minster

Southwell Minster is a minster and cathedral, in the British town of Southwell in Nottinghamshire, six miles away from Newark. It is considered a unique example of largely Early English Norman architecture in the vein of Durham Cathedral thanks to the distinctive pepperpot spires which uniquely overlap the footprint of the tower walls. Image File history File links Summary Southwell Minster by James Newman, 2005. ... Image File history File links Summary Southwell Minster by James Newman, 2005. ... Minster can refer to Minster (cathedral) Place names: United Kingdom Minster-in-Thanet, Kent Minster-in-Sheppey, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, England. ... A cathedral is a Christian church building, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy (such as the Roman Catholic Church or the Lutheran or Anglican churches), which serves as the central church of a bishopric. ... There are two Southwells in England: the Town of Southwell in Nottinghamshire, and the village of Southwell in Dorset. ... Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. ... Newark is the name of several places. ... Durham Cathedral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

In this case it was built partly as an attached church of the Palace of the Archbishop of York which stood next door and is now ruined. The function of the church was a mixture of the need to serve for the Archbishop as a place of worship thanks to the attached palace and a collegiate body of learning. The Archbishop of York, Primate of England, is the metropolitan of the Province of York, and is the junior of the two archbishops of the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury. ...

• The earliest church on the site is believed to have been founded in 627 by Paulinus, a missionary of the Archbishop of York.

• Construction on Southwell Minster began in 1108, on the site of a previous Saxon church. Many of the stones of this earlier Saxon church were reused in the construction of the Norman one. The tessellated floor and tympanum in the North Transept are the only remaining pieces of the older one.

Southwell Minster central tower. Note the Romanesque styling.

• The quire was replaced in 1234, the chapter house was built in 1286 complete with fan vaulting, and the quire screen in 1350.

• Interestingly, the church shows Early English styling on most of it with a Perpendicular back contrasting with the earlier part of the church.

• Southwell is where King Charles the First was captured during the English Civil War. The fighting saw the church seriously damaged with the nave actually having been used as stabling. The adjoining palace was almost completely destroyed with only the hall of the Archbishop remaining in the form of a ruined shell.

• The 'pepperpot' spires are the only example of their kind in the U.K. In danger of collapse they were removed in 1805 and only re-erected in 1888.

• In 1888 Southwell Minster finally became a cathedral proper for this part of Nottinghamshire and nearby Derbyshire. It included Derby until it was divided in 1927.

Collection of pictures on Southwell Minster Events May - Battle of Ucles Consecration of Chichester cathedral Saint Magnus becomes the first earl of Orkney In Pistoia, Italy, Cathedral of San Zeno burned to the ground. ... Saxon may refer to: The Saxon people The Anglo-Saxon people Saxon language: Anglo-Saxon language (the ancestor language of English) Lower Saxon language (a variety of Low German) Old Saxon language (the ancestor language of Anglo-Saxon language) Upper Saxon dialect (a variety of High German) An inhabitant of... Full descriptions of the elements of a Gothic floorplan are found at the entry Cathedral diagram. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (650x897, 221 KB) Summary Southwell Minster 2005. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (650x897, 221 KB) Summary Southwell Minster 2005. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651. ... Derby (pronounced dar-bee ) is a city in the East Midlands of England. ...