Lincoln Cathedral

When the bishop's seat moved from Dorchester-on-Thames to Lincoln, Bishop Remigius began work in 1027, which was continued by his successors, on one of the most monumental medieval cathedrals in England in keeping with the largest diocese in the country. This Anglo-Norman cathedral, completed in 1092, was badly damaged by fire in the wooden roof truss in 1141, the restored Romanesque-Norman church was subsequently damaged by an earthquake and was rebuilt by Hugo of Avalon, the French Carthusian monk who was elected bishop in 1186, in Early Gothic style incorporating the undamaged Romanesque parts. The cathedral was completed about half a century later but after the collapse of the crossing tower in 1239 it was rebuilt and with the addition of the Angel Choir in 1280 the original polygonal end of the choir was made straight to become a worthy place for the shrine of the beatified Hugo.