1. Etheldreda and the Shrine Architecture of Ely
... Christian martyrs "to pay special honour to the remains of St. Etheldreda and to all the Saxon saints whose bodies had been venerated for centuries in the old fenland sanctuary. " (Bony 1979, 40) The Octagonal shape also evokes the shape of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, the site where Christ was entombed. The Sepulcher is symbolic of the ... ...
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