The architecture combined many existing design and structural aspects such as pointed arches, slender columns, groin vaulting, and stained glass. ... It displays three stories with pointed arches and high ceilings, as well as a rose window that is a central focus of the front facade. ...
VOCABULARY Archaeology: the scientific study of ancient people and cultures principally revealed through excavation. Cromlech: a circle of megaliths. Henge: a Neolithic monument, characterized by a circular ground plan. Used for rituals and marking astronomical events. Megalith: a stone of great size used in the construction of a prehistoric structure. ...
The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely is currently the mother church of the Diocese of Ely. It is referred to as Ely Cathedral and is also known as the Ship of the Fens, because "Wherever you went in the Fen country you had only to look up and see it there, riding the sky like a great ship" (Ely Cathedral History and Heritage n.d.) The Fens have been described as "a place well suited for to those who wished to devoted themselves to God: relatively inaccessible, remote from worldly distractions, yet so blessed with natural resources necessary for sustaining life of a rel...
