Great Mistakes at Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral is one of wonders of the pre-Modern world, even though it looks like it does largely because bits of it kept falling down: this video was similarly no mean feat to put together. There's loads of eccentricities and so much downright weirdness at this amazing building, and I tried to squeeze as many in as I could without it being a mere checklist of wonky arches. I also do an appalling Frenchman impression, make fun of YouTube's ads, and close on a self-indulgent musical number I just pray is funny enough to inflict on all of you. But all that fluff probably took less time to film and edit then the research I did to establish an accurate caption for the vault in Neuötting that is on screen for about half a second.

Here's some sources for you (some of which you can probably see on the confused sixth-former's desk). It's not even every book I own that mentions Lincoln, but instead the ones that most influenced what I say.

Medieval art and architecture at Lincoln Cathedral, eds T.A. Heslop and V. Sekules, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, 1986 (especially papers by P. Kidson and R. Gem)
S. Harrison, "The original plan of St Hugh's Choir at Lincoln Cathedral reconsidered in the light of new evidence", Journal of the British Archaeological Association 169 (2016).
J. Foyle, Lincoln Cathedral: The Biography of a Great Building, Scala 2015.
P. Frankl rev. P. Crossley, Gothic Architecture, Yale 2000.
C. Wilson, The Gothic Cathedral, Thames & Hudson 1990, rev. 2000.
P. Draper, The Formation of English Gothic, Yale 2006.
P. Frankl, 'The "Crazy" Vaults of Lincoln Cathedral', The Art Bulletin, 35:2 (1953).
N. Pevsner, J. Harris, N. Antram, Lincolnshire, The Buildings of England, Yale 1989.

My reconstructions (e.g. the Romanesque cathedral, St Hugh's apse) are generally an amalgam of what is presented in these above sources, with many of the choices made for visual clarity (e.g. the clerestory on Harrison's axial chapel, although perhaps closer to the surviving Corona chapel at Canterbury, obscures the apse itself so I gave it an ambulatory-height roof).

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