Watercolour
(The electrified rail line and its gantries that would be in the foreground on the eastern side of the river have been omitted)
In the 1320's the heavy central tower collapsed and was replaced by new stone columns supporting a much lighter octagonal top of timber with lead-clad outer surfaces (fashioned like stone) and finely decorated panels on the interior walls.
A Cambridge eight on the Great Ouse at Ely, whose cathedral founded in 1109 has the third longest nave in Britain and whose building was funded in the 12th century at 8,000 eels a year via local catchers and Peterborough Abbey which owned the Barnack stone quarry. SOLD 2019
