Lincoln Cathedral

The Lincoln Cathedral is the seat of the Anglican bishop. Building commenced in 1088 and continued in several phases throughout the medieval period. It was the tallest building in the world for 238 years, and the first building to hold that title after the Great Pyramid of Giza. The central spire collapsed in 1549 and was not rebuilt. The cathedral is the third largest in Britain after St Paul's and York Minster, being 484 by 271 feet.

History of Lincoln Cathedral

Remigius de Fécamp, the first Bishop of Lincoln, moved the episcopal seat (cathedral) there sometime between 1072 and 1092 About this, James Essex writes that Remigius laid the foundations of his Cathedral in 1088 and it is probable that he, being a Norman, employed Norman masons to superintend the The building though he could not complete the whole before his death. Before that writes B. Winkles, It is well known that Remigius appropriated the parish church of St Mary Magdalene in Lincoln, although it is not known what use he made of it. Up until then St. Mary's Church in Stow was considered to be the "mother church" of Lincolnshire (although it was not a cathedral, because the seat of the diocese was at Dorchester Abbey in Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire). However, Lincoln was more central to a diocese that stretched from the The Thames to the Humber.

Lincoln Cathedral on the present site, finishing it in 1092 and then dying on 7 May of that year, two days before it was consecrated. In 1141, the timber roofing was destroyed in a fire. Bishop Alexander rebuilt and expanded the cathedral, but it was mostly destroyed by an earthquake about forty years later, in 1185 (dated by the British Geological Survey as occurring 15 April 1185). The earthquake was one of the largest felt in the UK it has an estimated magnitude of over 5. The damage to the cathedral is thought to have been very extensive the Cathedral is described as having split from top to bottom in the current building, only the lower part of the west end and of its two attached towers remain of the pre-earthquake cathedral. Some have suggested that the damage to Lincoln Cathedral was probably exaggerated by poor construction or design with the actual collapse most probably caused by a vault collapse.

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