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Lincoln Cathedral, ... In August 1255 the body of an eight-year-old boy was found in a well in Lincoln. He had been missing for nearly a month.
From 1311, when the spire of Lincoln Cathedral surpassed the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza, until the Washington Monument was completed in 1884, a succession of church buildings held this title. The tallest church building in the world is the Ulm Minster (161.5 m), the main Lutheran congregation in Ulm, Germany.
New Cathedral built adjoining old. [9] Architectural height 284 feet. [10] 9 Westminster Cathedral: 87 284 London: ... Lincoln Cathedral: 83 272 Lincoln, Lincolnshire:
Largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe. Bourges Cathedral: 5,900 [citation needed] 6,200 [citation needed] 1195–1230 Bourges France: Catholic Reims Cathedral: 5,800 [citation needed] 6,650 [citation needed] 1211–1275 Reims France: Catholic The longest church in France at 149.17m [citation needed] São Paulo Cathedral: 5,700 [56] 8,000 [57]
The Old St Paul's Cathedral (149 m (489 ft)) in London and Lincoln Cathedral (160 m (520 ft)) both surpassed not only any older tallest building, but also the tallest structures until then, the Pyramids. They were constructed from the 12th century, reaching completion and their maximum height in the 1310s (1314 and 1311 respectively).
A 13m-long table made from a 5,000-year-old "bog oak" is to be placed in Lincoln Cathedral.
The Lincoln Cathedral shop sells a Lincoln Imp keyring, and the cathedral website tells this story: One day, according to a very old legend, the Devil sent his imps out to play, and the wind blew two of them all the way to Lincoln. At first they were so awestruck by the splendour of the Cathedral that they were afraid to enter.
Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ə n /) is a cathedral city and district in Lincolnshire, England, of which it is the county town.In the 2021 Census, the city's district had a population of 103,813. [4]