Gloucester Cathedral interior nave

Photographer

De Smet, Arthur

Date

• ca. 1972-ca. 2018

Summary

• The Early English vaulting was added in 1242 and looks out of place with the heavy Norman walls of the nave. The vaulting is quadripartite with a ridge rib and has large stiff-leaf bosses which have been repainted. The clustered Purbeck vaulting shafts have stiff-leaf capitals and end at the triforium. Below this are short vaulting shafts ending on corbel heads in the spandrels of the arcade.