Construction of Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral is a Gothic cathedral in the English city of Lincoln, standing on a hill overlooking the surrounding countryside, and it was begun in the Norman period by Bishop Remigius. After an earthquake in the late twelfth century damaged the first building, it was rebuilt under Bishop Hugh of Avalon, in what is regarded as an early example of the Gothic style in England. For over two centuries, from the early fourteenth century, its central spire made it the tallest building in the world, until the spire collapsed in a storm in the sixteenth century. The cathedral houses one of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta of 1215, and is often called one of the finest buildings in Britain.

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