This post is the first in a series on Cathedrals and churches in the United Kingdom. In cities, towns and villages all over Britain you will find beautiful old buildings which are often somewhat sad and sombre relics of a vanished era of faith, power and excess. They are largely forgotten now, in many instances surrounded by the gravestones of a larger departed congregation than the living faithful and yet they represent a vast heritage of art, architecture and history which is there to be explored and perhaps rediscovered. I have begun a personal exercise of photographing churches and cathedrals in the United Kingdom and have been struck by their wealth. Most have been built over centuries and all are full of drama. Most hold their ages within them and speak of bygone eras but some seem very modern even though they were constructed centuries ago. Continue reading “Featuring Cathedrals 1: Wells Cathedral”