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12 unusual facts about Lincoln Cathedral


Borough of Buckingham

This formed part of the endowment of the prebend of Sutton cum Buckingham in Lincoln Cathedral.

Carnivalesque

The Feast of Fools had its chief vogue in the French cathedrals, but there are a few English records of it, notably in Lincoln Cathedral and Beverley Minster.

Dennis Townhill

Born in Lincoln, he was educated at Lincoln School and studied under Dr Gordon Archbold Slater at Lincoln Cathedral.

Fantasia Lindum

The "Fantasia Lindum" sequence, which makes up the first side of the album, is the band's musical tribute to the city of Lincoln, the Lincolnshire countryside and the mediaeval Lincoln Cathedral.

John Brancastre

In the following October he was rewarded by the king (who exercised the right of presentation during the vacancy in the abbacy) with the vicarage of the parish which was doubtless his birthplace, Brancaster in Norfolk, and on 29 May 1208 was appointed prebendary of Lidington in Lincoln Cathedral.

Katherine Swynford

On 13 January 1396, two years after the death of the Duke's second wife, Infanta Constance of Castile, Katherine and John of Gaunt married in Lincoln Cathedral.

Nathaniel Hitch

Lincoln Cathedral (The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln) - a Church of England cathedral in Lincoln, England

Nicholas Grigsby

A former organ scholar of Salisbury Cathedral, he studied organ and improvisation with Colin Walsh, Organist Laureate of Lincoln Cathedral, Peter Wright at Southwark Cathedral, London and in France at Rouen Conservatoire with the blind organist Louis Thiry, a former pupil of the late virtuoso Marchal.

St Helen's Church, Wheathampstead

However, from the Lincoln Cathedral Registry (Wheathampstead fell with the See of Lincoln up until 1845) the building of the central tower dates to about 1290AD, which is the first definitive date that can be ascribed to the church.

Walter D'Aincourt

Walter's first son, William, died young, while in fosterage at the court of King William II "Rufus", and was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, but his other son Ralph lived to become the second Baron Deincourt; his third son was named Walter.

Ward and Hughes

Perhaps the most prestigious stained glass commission of the 19th century, the re-glazing of East Window of Lincoln Cathedral, went to Ward and Nixon in 1855.

Whitechapel Bell Foundry

The foundry produced "Great Tom" at Lincoln Cathedral, which can be heard from a distance of 13 miles, the "Clock Bells" at St Paul's Cathedral, the bells of Westminster Abbey and the 13 bells located at Liverpool's Anglican cathedral which are notable for being the heaviest change-ringing peal of bells in the world.


Bluestone Heath Road

It climbs to a height of 98 metres (320 feet) above sea level near Tetford, and, on a fine day, provides a marvelous view of the hamlets, corn fields, hills and landmarks of the area, such as Lincoln Cathedral, Boston Stump and the North Sea.

Crich

From there eight counties can be seen, including landmarks such as the Humber Bridge and Lincoln Cathedral.

Riseholme

The name was probably derived from the village of Riseholme, near Lincoln, of whose Church of England cathedral, Benson's father, Edward White Benson, was Chancellor before becoming Bishop of Truro in 1877.

Samuel Lodge

The Rev. Samuel Lodge (11 February 1829 – 5 September 1897) was the author of Scrivelsby, the Home of the Champions He was a headmaster of Horncastle Grammar School, Lincolnshire, rector for 30 years of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, and a Canon of Lincoln Cathedral.

St. Mary Magdalen Priory, Lincoln

Leland also mentions another early religious house in Lincoln, that predates the time of Remigius de Fécamp, the Benedictine Bishop who began the construction of Lincoln Cathedral in the mid 1070s.