When the dust had settled from the collapse of Ely’s Romanesque crossing tower in 1322, there was just a large open space where the crossing tower on its four great piers had been. Rather than replace ...

A cathedral is marking the anniversary of the collapse of its bell tower, which "fell with much crashing and banging" 700 years ago today. The Benedictine monks of Ely Abbey, in present day ...

The cathedral we see today at Ely is not at all as it was in the Middle Ages. Three events in particular had a massive impact on it. The first was the Reformation, in the 1530s and 1540s, when ...

The Monk’s Door is partially covered by a large buttress and there is a blocked doorway in the transept wall to the right. This buttress was added in the 1320s to support the Octagon lantern that was ...