Monuments in the Cathedral

King Edward II was an unpopular King who was murdered in 1327. His son Edward III commissioned the tomb's construction in 1330, and this spurred the reconstruction of this end of the cathedral in the new Perpendicular Gothic style. It was because Edward was a relative that King Henry VIII didn't dissolve this cathedral.

The next monument is for Robert of Normandy, eldest son of William the Conqueror, never became king due to a rocky father-son relationship.

Saint Kyneburga was the first abbess here, from 679-710. She governed both monks and nuns.

The fourth memorial is for a young wife who died during or shortly after childbirth, while the family was at sea. It looks like she is rising to heaven on a wave--very poignant.

"Layered Memories of Conflict": A sculpture about the repetition of conflict and war.

Monument to stonemasons who worked on the cathedral. The origin is unknown, but it looks like a stonemason fell.Read more