Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Canterbury Cathedral Set

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• Canterbury Cathedral Set
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  The perpendicular nave
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  The choir
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  The rood screen
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  The stained glass of the Trinity Chapel
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  Becket's Crown, the shrine to Thomas Becket
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  The cloisters

Reason

This is a very notable subject - the gothic cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the 'mother cathedral' of Anglicanism worldwide. These six images show the major architectural aspects of the cathedral. The perpendicular nave, the choir, the rood screen, the stained glass, the Shrine of Thomas Beckett, and the cloisters.

Articles in which this image appears

Canterbury Cathedral

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors

Creator

User:Diliff

• Support as nominator – Ðiliff «» (Talk) 14:02, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• WooW. Support. Hafspajen (talk) 14:23, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Holy Cr*p on a Cracker a.k.a. Support Fair Play Ðiliff... Are you on a tour of the Cathedrals of the UK or something?! gazhiley 14:45, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I did this summer actually, I applied for a Wikimedia UK grant which covered the cost of fuel and entry fees. Covered about 35 cathedrals over two one week trips! Was pretty intense, but good fun. :-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 16:05, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Ah yeah that'll help! Didn't know stuff like that existed, but well done for getting it! gazhiley 23:29, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Fine work as usual — although I'm just a little bit bothered by the lights in the perpendicular nave. Sca (talk) 15:52, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yeah, that was unfortunate, but I can't really ask them to turn off the lights for me. I could have cropped it to avoid the lights but because of the starbursts from them (it's unavoidable with bright lights pointing at the lens), I'd have to completely lose the framing of the arch and that's a somewhat important part of the perpendicular style of architecture... Ðiliff «» (Talk) 16:05, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Sca (talk) 17:01, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Great quality and just a feast to the eyes. Nikhil (talk) 06:05, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. Stunning. Money well-spent by Wikimedia UK, though I have always thought it's a travesty that you have to pay to get into churches. (It is, of course, quite reasonable to ask for donations, but the thought that you can't get into a church if you've no coins in your pocket seems a little amiss.) J Milburn (talk) 11:45, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm with you on that. And in addition, some cathedrals charge extra for photography on top of the entry fee - usually about £5-6 which 'buys you the right' to take photos inside. Of course these cathedrals need need funding to remain open, but really? What is so different about someone who wants to take photos as opposed to looking around? Oh well, I guess they decided that they can't easily differentiate between religious visitors and tourists, but a camera firmly identifies you as a tourist. The irony is that in the case of Canterbury Cathedral, I specifically arrived at about 7:30am to attend morning mass so that I would have the whole cathedral to myself (virtually) before it officially opened to the public at 9am, and I managed to avoid the steep £10.50 entry fee in the process. Yes, it was cheeky, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do, and hey, I saved Wikimedia UK some money. ;-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 12:01, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support I love all of this photographers work but the sets are exceptional. Could use some tips. ;-)--Mark Miller (talk) 12:08, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - So Commons has a Diliff nomination club... are we going for that here too? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:04, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support the first one is the best. ///EuroCarGT 00:42, 21 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support as others. Yann (talk) 19:21, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support : Bellus Delphina ^talk 05:23, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. Becky Sayles (talk) 14:45, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Excellent work. APK whisper in my ear 04:38, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Support --DUCK404 a (talk) 04:45, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Canterbury Cathedral Nave 1, Kent, UK - Diliff.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:03, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:Canterbury Cathedral Choir 2, Kent, UK - Diliff.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:03, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:Canterbury Cathedral Rood Screen, Kent, UK - Diliff.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:03, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:Canterbury Cathedral Trinity Chapel Stained Glass, Kent, UK - Diliff.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:03, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:Canterbury Cathedral Becket's Crown, Kent, UK - Diliff.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:03, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:Canterbury Cathedral Cloisters, Kent, UK - Diliff.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:03, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]