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Ely (/ ˈ iː l i / ⓘ EE-lee) is a cathedral city and civil parish in the East Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about 14 miles (23 km) north-northeast of Cambridge, 24 miles (39 km) south east of Peterborough and 80 miles (130 km) from London.
- Ely - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Ely es una pequeña ciudad situada en el distrito de East...
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Ely Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and...
- Ely - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Ely es una pequeña ciudad situada en el distrito de East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, en el este de Inglaterra, a 103 kilómetros al noreste de Charing Cross, en Londres. Destaca por su catedral, [2] considerada una de las grandes maravillas del arte gótico en Inglaterra.
- Anglo-Saxon Abbey
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Ely Abbey was founded in 672, by Æthelthryth (St Etheldreda), a daughter of Anna, King of East Anglia. It was a mixed community of men and women. Later accounts suggest her three successor abbesses were also members of the East Anglian Royal family. In later centuries, the depredations of Viking raids may have resulted in its destruction, or at lea...
The cathedral is built from stone quarried from Barnack in Northamptonshire (bought from Peterborough Abbey, whose lands included the quarries, for 8,000 eels a year[clarification needed]), with decorative elements carved from Purbeck Marble and local clunch. The plan of the building is cruciform (cross-shaped), with an additional transept at the w...
When Charles II was invited to return to Britain, alongside the political restoration there began a process of re-establishing the Church of England. Matthew Wren, whose high church views had kept him in prison throughout the period of the Commonwealth, was able to appoint a new cathedral chapter. The dean, by contrast was appointed by the crown. T...
Ely has been an important centre of Christian worship since the seventh century AD. Most of what is known about its history before the Norman Conquest comes from Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum written early in the eighth century and from the Liber Eliensis, an anonymous chronicle written at Ely some time in the twelfth century, drawi...
As of April 2019[update]: 1. Dean – Mark Bonney(since 22 September 2012 installation) 2. Precentor – James Garrard (since 29 November 2008 installation) 3. Canon residentiary – James Reveley 4. Canon residentiary and (Diocesan) Initial Ministerial Education (IME) co-ordinator – Jessica Martin (since 10 September 2016 installation)
The cathedral retains six professional adult lay clerks who sing in the Cathedral Choir along with boy choristers aged 7 to 13 who receive choristerships funded by the cathedral to attend the King's Elyschool as boarding pupils. Ely Cathedral Girls' Choir consists of girls aged 13 to 18 who are also boarding pupils at King's Ely and who are funded ...
The south triforium is home to the Stained Glass Museum, a collection of stained glass from the thirteenth century to the present that is of national importance and includes works from notable contemporary artists including Ervin Bossanyi.
The cathedral was the subject of a watercolour by J. M. W. Turner, in about 1796.The cathedral appears on the horizon in the cover photo of Pink Floyd's 1994 album The Division Bell, and in the music video of a single from that album, "High Hopes".The covers of a number of John Rutter's choral albums feature an image of the cathedral, a reference to early recordings of his music being performed and recorded in the Lady chapel.Direct references to the cathedral appear in the children's book Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce. A full-length movie with the same title was released in 1999.W. E. Dickson. Ely Cathedral(Isbister & Co., 1897).Richard John King. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England – Vol. 3, (John Murray, 1862).D. J. Stewart. On the architectural history of Ely cathedral(J. Van Voorst, 1868).Peter Meadows and Nigel Ramsay, eds., A History of Ely Cathedral(The Boydell Press, 2003).Descriptive tour of Ely Cathedral Archived 26 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine- England
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- 66 m (west tower), 52 m (lantern tower)
- Ely, Cambridgeshire
The Isle of Ely (/ ˈ iː l i /) is a historic region around the city of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England. Between 1889 and 1965, it formed an administrative county.
Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely was, from 1965 to 1974, an administrative and geographical county in East Anglia in the United Kingdom. In 1974 it became part of an enlarged Cambridgeshire . Formation. Map of the historical administrative boundaries in modern Cambridgeshire.
Ely es una pequeña ciudad situada en el distrito de East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, en el este de Inglaterra, a 103 kilómetros al noreste de Charing Cross, en Londres. Destaca por su catedral, considerada una de las grandes maravillas del arte gótico en Inglaterra.
Ely ( pronunciation (help·info); IPA /'iːli/, rhyming with "freely") is a cathedral city in the East Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire in the east of England and 23 km (14.3 mi) north north-east of Cambridge . Ely has been called a city for a long time because it has a cathedral.
