Durham Cathedral, Durham

Durham Cathedral, Durham

Photograph taken 28 February 2001 © Historic England Archive/Mr Bob Cottrell ref: 110420

Cathedral church, originally the church of a Benedictine Priory. The priory was refounded in 1541, after the dissolution, as a secular cathedral.

Location

Period

Medieval (Middle Ages) (1066 - 1484)

Themes

A view of York Minster from the south. Work on the gothic cathedral began in c.1220 under the Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray.

Cathedrals

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church cathedral priory religion faith monastery dissolution