Bishops Eye

There are two stained glass windows in the cathedral that were originally placed to look out across the city. The Deans eye looked north across the uphill settlement, and the Bishops Eye (seen here) looked out across the south and the original 'Lindum' settlement downhill.

The two matching windows were added to the cathedral during the late Middle Ages. The Dean's Eye was as I've said in the north transept and dates from the 1192. However it was finally completed in 1235. The Bishop?s eye, which you see here is in the south transept was re-constructed 100 years later in 1330.

From inside these two windows are awe inspiring, beautifully colourful and crafted to perfection. However from the outside their inner beauty isn't always apparent: hopefully I've managed to show that they are beautiful from any angle.

I shall not be bipping cathedral based snaps this weekend as I'm off to Bury St Edmunds :-D maybe I might let my cathedral passion die down a bit!!

I'll leave you wit the words of Victorian writer John Ruskin: "I have always held... that the cathedral of Lincoln is out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles and roughly speaking worth any two other cathedrals we have."