Wakefield Cathedral
At 75 metres Wakefield Cathedral’s spire is the highest in Yorkshire.
Constructed on top of a Saxon church, the cathedral has lots of original Medieval design, from Norman to Perpendicular Gothic.
Between 1858 and 1874 the Victorian master restorer George Gilbert Scott and his son John Oldrid Scott regenerated the building after more than a hundred years of disuse.
It’s not hard to find the oldest parts: the wall of the north aisle goes back to the mid 12th century, the same period as the piers in the nave, which support Gothic arches from the 13th century.
Overhead, cast your gaze up to the wooden coffered 15th-century ceiling, adorned with ornately carved bosses.
The choir stalls are also 15th-century and have 11 misericords with outlandish mythical beasts and a Green Man.
Constructed on top of a Saxon church, the cathedral has lots of original Medieval design, from Norman to Perpendicular Gothic.
Between 1858 and 1874 the Victorian master restorer George Gilbert Scott and his son John Oldrid Scott regenerated the building after more than a hundred years of disuse.
It’s not hard to find the oldest parts: the wall of the north aisle goes back to the mid 12th century, the same period as the piers in the nave, which support Gothic arches from the 13th century.
Overhead, cast your gaze up to the wooden coffered 15th-century ceiling, adorned with ornately carved bosses.
The choir stalls are also 15th-century and have 11 misericords with outlandish mythical beasts and a Green Man.
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