Looking up to God

I know there are lots of things to see in most of the cathedrals of our land.

Norwich Cathedral always strikes me as ultra pictorial (providing you remember to look up.)

The masons who built the cathedral decorated most of the roof areas with images, called bosses, of biblical scenes. Norwich is particularly good in making mirrors available in the nave (the largest public area) and if one has a stiff neck such moveable mirrors are a bonus for those who wish to see them more clearly.

I’m not going to insult your intelligence by describing which stories they illustrate. Most are self explicable and for the others, despite somewhere having a book listing what they are, I will make a guess. Yes I know I should get it right, but I am not sure where the book is at the moment!

It’s not just the nave which is decorated; the choir, presbytery, transepts and even the cloisters have bosses – most in a good state of repair.

Even so I personally like the west window. I know it is nothing like as old as other pictorial scenes in the building, and, I suspect most people who leave via the west door miss it out entirely, but I think it is a masterpiece.

I’m always delighted to see that even modern artists are inspired by the interior of the building – even when the artist in question is obviously a plant by the cameraman. Nevertheless his picture is real.

I’m about to no longer be real.

Maybe see you next week with another “load of rubbish” (you’re right that is a hidden message.)