Canterbury Cathedral interior presbytery

Photographer

De Smet, Arthur

Date

• ca. 1972-ca. 2018

Summary

• The four piers of the presbytery are all different changing from round to octagonal with attached shafts to round with a pair of shafts and finally to an octagonal pier with transitions to round one-third of the way up. The foliage on the pier capitals is transitional between acanthus leaves and stiff-leaf. Each bay of the tribune gallery has two pairs of pointed arches beneath a round super-arch. The crocket capitals are early stiff-leaf. Purbeck marble is used for the shafts in the gallery and clerestory as well as the ends of the vaulting shafts. The vaulting is sexpartite with large bosses decorated with foliage.