Ely Cathedral interior presbytery north wall

Photographer

De Smet, Arthur

Date

• ca. 1972-ca. 2018

Summary

• The six bays and lancet windows at the east end are Early English of the 13th C. The piers of the arcade are circular with eight detached Purbeck marble shafts with Purbeck stiff-leaf capitals and annulets. The corbels supporting the vaulting shafts have stiff-leaf crockets. The vaulting has transverse, diagonal, ridge and tierceron ribs.