Cathedral
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Founded as a cathedral in 1075 the architecture has developed from the original Norman style into a succession of Gothic styling. Inside it is possible to view some of the Roman mosaics which exist under the building. The artworks inside include two very rare 12th century relief carvings which depict the story of the ‘Raising of Lazarus’. There are two vast Tudor paintings on wood panel by Lambert Barnard, a Chagall stained glass window and a superb range of Flaxman funerary monuments. The effigies of Richard Fitzalan and his wife Eleanor, known as the Arundel tomb, were the subject of a famous poem by Philip Larkin. The fact that the figures hold hands is unusual and there is something of an argument that this has been reconstructed, faked.
