Day 160 of 365 - St Mary's Priory and Cathedral!

Welcome to day 160 of 365 (Finished image after Editing)

The original photo was taken this afternoon on the 'Priory Garden' area of the Cathedral Quarter of Coventry. The image is of The exposed foundations of the original (the First of Three) of Coventry's Cathedrals. The Cathedral of St. Mary's Priory dates back to the time of Lady Godiva and her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia. They founded a Benedictine monastery in 1043 that was dedicated to St. Mary. About 50 years later Papal authorisation was given for the monastery to become a Priory and Cathedral. The cathedral lasted until the Mid 16th Century, when it was destroyed as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries during King Henry VIII's reign. St Mary's was the only English cathedral to be destroyed during this time. For nearly 400 years Coventry went without a Cathedral until in 1918 the parish Church of St Michael became the Second Cathedral in Coventry's history. Part of the ruins of St. Mary's Priory Cathedral were uncovered in 1856 when the Blue Coat School was rebuilt on the site (the Building in the background). In 1999 as part of the Phoenix Initiative, archaeologists from the Channel 4 TV programme 'Time Team' conducted a dig to help find more remains of the Priory Cathedral. They returned again in 2001 for a second programme to see the progress that was being made.

The Priory Remains are classed as a both a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It is number 18 on my list of 19 (Grade I) Listed buildings and number 8 on my list of 10 Scheduled Ancient Monument's in Coventry that I hope to photograph.

As always the shot was taken with my iPhone 5. The photo was taken using the camera App 645 Pro for iPhone. The original image can be found here: Unedited original Image.

First of all I used the app Dynamic Light to edit the image with the standard preset. Next I used the app called Mextures to apply some lighting and textures to the image. The Layers that I applied were, Vignette, Concrete Jungle, Ford Screen, Leaker, Sky Earth Overlay and the Neutral Density Soft Light Overlay. Finally I used Distressed FX to add extra texture to the image using the Stirred overlay and the Lazarus Texture.