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Durham Cathedral by Turner, 1801. Durham Cathedral, a poem by Letitia Landon, appeared in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book of 1835, with an engraving of a painting of the interior by Thomas Allom. [92] "Half church of God, half castle 'gainst the Scot", according to Sir Walter Scott. Inscription on Prebends Bridge, Durham.
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Memorial to Bishop Edward Maltby, Durham Cathedral. The Established Church Act 1836 set the maximum annual income for a bishop at £8,000 (£525,000 at 2003 prices [17]) but it was revealed in 1847 that Maltby was earning around £12,000 (£787,000 [17]), having exceeded £21,000 (£1.4 million [17]) in 1841. In response to the widespread ...
Durham Castle and Cathedral is a World Heritage Site (WHS ID No. 370), [1] in Durham, England. The site includes Durham Castle, Durham Cathedral, Durham University, Palace Green and University College, Durham. It was first given World Heritage Site status in 1986, and its boundaries were modified in 2008. [1]
Notre-Dame Cathedral reopening event: Watch live. ... festivities on USA TODAY's YouTube channel ... the reopening service ceremony of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, December 7, 2024.
Durham (/ ˈ d ʌr əm / ⓘ DURR-əm, locally / ˈ d ɜːr əm / listen ⓘ) [a] is a cathedral city and civil parish in the county of Durham, England.It is the county town and contains the headquarters of Durham County Council, the unitary authority which governs the district of County Durham.
The clock was placed in the cathedral between 1494 and 1519, during the tenure of Prior Thomas Castell. [1] Dean Richard Hunt renovated it between 1620 and 1638.. It was originally on the east side of the rood screen, but was moved in 1593 to its current location in the south transept.
In 1905, the cathedral choirs met in Salisbury, followed by Winchester in 1906. Bishop Wilberforce of Chichester died in September 1907, so the return to Chichester had to be delayed until 1908. Thereafter, the Three Choirs Festival , as it was then known, continued until 1913 when the annual meeting was suspended because of the First World War.