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- 1. Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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Parish church 12thc. circular aisled nave with unlighted gallery and central ribbed dome on a lighted drum. To this is attached a rectangular two-bay aisled chancel, originally of the 13thc. The present appearance owes much to Salvin's restoration of 1841: particularly the chancel, the W doorway, the gallery capitals and the entire drum and dome of the nave, which replaced a 15thc. bell-storey. The church is built of ashlar.
- 2. St Mary Magdalene, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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Originally the chapel of the Leper Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, now a chapel in the parish of Holy Cross St Mary Magdalene is a rare example of a substantially complete 12thc. chapel, surviving on a most unlikely site on the busy Newmarket Road, alongside the disused Barnwell Junction railway station, and opposite Cambridge United football ground. It is a small, two-cell church with a square-ended ashlar chancel, originally vaulted, and a pebble nave with brick repairs. The outer angles of both nave and chancel have stone quoin shafts. The roof was renewed in the 15thc. The chapel fell into disrepair and when Cotman illustrated it in 1819 it was in use as a stable. Sir George Gilbert Scott restored it in 1867, and he was responsible for the main W window. 12thc. sculpture includes the lavish N and S doorways and nave and chancel windows, external and internal decorative friezes, the quoin shafts mentioned above, and the chancel arch.
- 3. Bishop's House (Monks' Kitchen), Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
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House, incorporating monastic building The Bishop's House was formerly the Deanery, a house built into the former Great Hall of the monastery. Residence was transferred from the Dean to the Bishop in 1941. The oldest part of the building is its 13thc. vaulted undercroft, but the Bishop's rose garden, to the NE of the house includes the 12thc. remains of the Monks' kitchen. This is thought to have been a square structure vaulted in nine bays; the central bay, supported on four piers carrying a lantern or louvre. Most of the S and W walls survive, each with a pair of heavy vault responds carrying scallop capitals, and the remains of windows surviving between the responds.
- 4. Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
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Benedictine monastery originally, now Cathedral. The church begun by Abbot Simeon in 1082 had a 13-bay aisled nave, four-bay aisled transepts, a crossing with a tower, and a four-bay aisled chancel terminating in an apse. At the W end was a second transept with E chapels and a second tower. A western Galilee porch was added in the 13thc. (1198–1215), and the chancel was extended to the E with a six-bay retrochoir, completed in 1252. In 1321 the Lady Chapel was added to the N of the choir, and a year later the crossing tower collapsed. The octagon, built to replace it, was completed by 1342, and in the same campaign the remaining bays of the 11thc. chancel were replaced. The only above-ground survivals of the original chancel are the two easternmost piers of its straight section. Elsewhere in the building, the N section of the W transept collapsed in the late 15thc., and the NW corner of the N transept in 1699. The former was merely consolidated, the latter rebuilt.
- 5. Ely Infirmary, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
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Monastic infirmary hall and chapel The infirmary complex lies to the S of the cathedral, E of the E walk of the cloister, to which it was once connected by a vaulted passage known as the Dark Cloister. It consists of a nine-bay aisled hall running E–W, terminated by a stone screen at the E with a doorway or archway into the four-bay nave of the chapel. At the E end of this is a square-ended sanctuary vaulted in two bays. A doorway in the W bay of the chapel N nave aisle gave access to the monks' cemetery. Much of this survives, but it has been incorporated into later buildings. Except for the sanctuary of the chapel the roofs are gone, and the open passage remaining is now called Firmary Lane.
- 6. Prior's House, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
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House The 12thc. core of the building is rectangular and has a N–S axis. Of this the undercroft retains the only 12thc. work, while the hall above it (New Hall) belongs to the early 14thc. To this core were added two wings projecting to the E. The 14thc. NE wing was built to house the Treasury Chamber, probably after 1344, while the SE wing belongs to the 15thc.
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