Jenny Alexander (University of Warwick)
Public or Private Ritual Space? Lincoln's Angel Choir in the later-medieval period
Lincoln Cathedral's Angel Choir was built in the second half of the 13th century both to provide a site for St Hugh's shrine and to promote his cult. By the end of the Middle Ages the part of the choir closest to the shrine had become the chosen burial site for royalty, senior clergy, and the nobility and this impacted on the role of the shrine within the building. Not all of the tombs survive but they can be reconstructed from drawings in the Book of Monuments and from other sources and it is now possible to re-examine both the form of the tombs and their relationship to the new building work underway in the cathedral during the 14th century.
Dr Alexander is Principal Teaching Fellow, History of Art, at the University of Warwick.
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