My Liverpool trip -. Day 3 (morning cont.) - Chester, Chester Cathedral - The 28th of November 2015

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Dating from 1093 and the early 16th century the Chester Cathedral has often been restored. We didn't initially realise how big it was as we wandered about its cloisters lined with Christmas trees decorated artistically.

Once we set foot in its interior I was immediately drawn to some mosaic covered walls, which I tried to photograph despite the gloomy-like atmosphere. I was soon attracted by the wooden quadripartite vault of the choir, which I didn't manage to photograph, as well as the high altar with its reredos and the tile floor of the nave.

 

Some isolated elements were highlighted as I wandered about, amongst which were the nave lectern, the choil , which I later realised dated from the early fourteenth century and the West window twentieth century stainglass by Carter Shepland.

What seemed rather interesting was the fact that Charles Dickens's characters had become part of the Cathedral's attractions in as much as the Ghost of Jacob Marly, Scrooge in his counting House  with Bob Cratchit and even Scrooge's graveyard with the ghost of Christmas yet to come were "embedded" in various locations of its interior and exterior, all of which apart from extracts from Charles Dicken's tale had "pauses for thought" taken from the Bible were copied down.

 

My Liverpool trip - Day 3 (early morning) - Stanley Street; On our way to Chester; Chester streets - The 28th of November 2015

It was quite cold and raining heavily the third morning we spent in Liverpool. We made our way to the Lime street Station so as to catch a train heading to Chester where we had planned to spend the whole morning. As

As we stopped on Stanley street we came across the famous bronze sculpture of Eleonor Rigby, one of Beatles' well known songs with its "magical" objects including a Bible, sonnets for love and a clover leaf.

We managed to get the nine o'clock train, having reached Chester approximately one hour later. It was raining as well but that didn't prevent us from walking along the rows of brick houses followed by the typical Chester black-and-white "double decker" shopping streets as we headed towards the city's Cathedral. The streets were crowded with people clearly carrying out their Christmas' shopping.

(To be continued)