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Lincoln Cathedral, also called Lincoln Minster, [2] and formally the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, is a Church of England cathedral in Lincoln, England. It is the seat of the bishop of Lincoln and is the mother church of the diocese of Lincoln .
Misericord from the Charterhouse of Florence (Tuscany, Italy), depicting a mascaron With the seat lifted (as at left), the misericord provides a ledge to support the user. A misericord (sometimes named mercy seat, like the biblical object) is a small wooden structure formed on the underside of a folding seat in a church which, when the seat is folded up, is intended to act as a shelf to ...
Choir Stalls of Lincoln Minster, 1951, Friends of Lincoln Cathedral; Misericords. Medieval life in English woodcarving. 1954, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books; The Imagery of British Churches, 1955, John Murray; Drama and Imagery in English Medieval Churches, 1963, Cambridge U.P. Grey Sisters, 1972, Chatto and Windus
The Lincoln Imp at Lincoln College Oxford is a reference to the origins of the college, Lincoln. This has given rise to a traditional Oxford expression: 'to look on someone like the Imp looks over Lincoln' (a variant of the older proverb discussed above) as well as giving rise to the title of the college's undergraduate newspaper: The Lincoln ...
Founded by Edward White Benson, when he was Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, the college opened on 25 January 1874.It was also known as Scholae Cancellarii.The building it occupied on Drury Lane, which was originally the county infirmary, closed in 1995 after having its permit as a college recognised for ordination training withdrawn by the Church of England owing to reduced numbers of ...
Pearson also designed university buildings for Sidney Sussex College and Emmanuel College in Cambridge. [1] Most of Pearson's buildings are in England (where he worked on at least 210 ecclesiastical buildings), [2] but he also carried out work elsewhere, for example Treberfydd, a country house in Wales, and Holy Trinity Church in Ayr, Scotland ...
Lincoln is one of only two surviving Wren libraries; the other is the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, designed by Wren in 1676. Displayed under the staircase leading to the Library is a Roman mosaic discovered in the cloister in 1793. [4] The Wren Library is currently closed to the public for extensive repairs to the ceiling.
Four addresses on The Church of England delivered in Lincoln Cathedral in September 1886 were published by Venables that year. He was a major contributor to William Smith 's Dictionary of the Bible , Dictionary of Christian Antiquities , and Dictionary of Christian Biography ; also to the Encyclopædia Britannica , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] John Kitto 's ...