Crypt at Worcester Cathedral

Worcester Cathedral was founded it in 680. Saint Oswald then built another cathedral in 983, and established a monastery attached to it. Saint Wulfstan, who rebuilt the cathedral in 1084, began the present building. The cathedral was badly damaged in the civil wars, and as a consequence a major programme of rebuilding was required after the Restoration of Charles II. From the late seventeenth until the nineteenth centuries there were several campaigns to restore parts of the cathedral, but it was the Victorians from 1864-75 who carried out the largest of these.

The crypt shown above, was built in 1084 and refurbished in 1984.