Peter Meadows & Nigel Ramsay A History of Ely Cathedral , Suffolk, UK: The Boydell Press, 2002.

Illustrated by Plates, Photographs, Illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to 0851159451 Nearly new conditions. DJ unpriced/unclipped. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling to spine. xxviii, 434 pages, inclusive of appendices, index, 94 colour illustrations / photographs, approx. 193 b&w illustrations / photographs, 17 text figures. Heavy book but will be shipped for the standard charge. From the tiny community founded in the fens by St Etheldreda in 672, and refounded as an abbey in 970, grew one of the greatest monasteries in England: a community which owned estates throughout Cambridgeshire and East Anglia as well as the Isle of Ely itself, and which lived and worshipped in a set of buildings many of which are still standing. `There is not perhaps, any one Fabrick in this Kingdom that exhibits a larger, more elegant, or a more magnificent display of what is called Gothic Architecture, than the Cathedral of Ely': so wrote James Bentham in his History and Antiquities of Ely in 1771. The present book is the first substantial history of the cathedral to be written since then, and covers the Church of Ely through each of its transformations - as early Saxon monastic settlement, as abbey, as cathedral priory (1109), and finally, after the Reformation, as cathedral governed by dean and chapter (1541). Authoritatively and definitively, experts also set out the history of the cathedralis architecture and furnishings, liturgy and music, and archives and library. A final chapter looks at the present-day life of the cathedral and the changes and challenges produced by the new statutes of 2000. Cover photograph by Nigel Bloxham. Contributors: IAN ATHERTON, THOMAS COCKE, PHILIP DIXON, ERIC FERNIE, JOAN GREATREX, MICHAEL HIGGINS, SIMON KEYNES, FRANCES KNIGHT, JOHN MADDISON, PETER MEADOWS, DOROTHY OWEN, IAN PAYNE, NIGEL RAMSAY, NICHOLAS THISTLETHWAITE. (Book ref. 129735)  £25.00

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