Durham Cathedral The Millennium Window Mounted Print

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Durham Cathedral The Millennium Window Mounted Print. Free UK shipping. Vertical mounted print, with a photograph of the Millennium Window. This modern window in Durham Cathedral was completed in 1995, it is located in the South Quire aisle to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of St Cuthbert’s Shrine arriving at Durham. The stained glass window combines Holy Island and St Cuthbert with the modern world. For example a university computer is shown printing a 12th century account of moving St Cuthbert’s coffin. The window includes images of the North East industrial heritage, these include coal mining, ship building and the railways. Also included is the North East’s religious history with St. Cuthbert and St. Bede, Lindisfarne priory is also depicted. To contrast these is glass production, which happened right along the North East coast and also farming. Glass production was a major industry in the North East, there is a Glass Museum located at Sunderland, beside the University. Collectors of Sea Glass come from all over the world to the beaches of the North East coast to collect sea glass. Making jewellery is a very popular use for the collected glass.

This photograph was taken from the part of the Cathedral where the choir stalls are located. A short telephoto lens was used to take this photograph. A few different shots were taken, to get the exposure right, this is to keep detail in the light parts of the stained glass window. It can be tricky getting the exposure correct as there is often a wide contrast range in a window.

Work to construct this fabulous Norman building, began in 1093 and took about 800 years to complete. It is the shrine and resting place for the remains of St. Cuthbert. The monks of Lindisfarne had spent many years travelling around the North East of England looking for a suitable resting place for this important saint. Durham Cathedral and the buildings around palace Green, including Durham Castle in 1986 were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Durham Cathedral has featured in many films and TV shows, including the early Harry Potter movies, Elizabeth and Marvel’s Avengers Endgame. TV shows include ITV’s North East set detective series Inspector George Gentley.

This mounted print from Durham Cathedral is produced by kind permission of the Chapter House of Durham Cathedral. This is one of a wide range of photographs taken inside the Cathedral of both the architecture and the stained glass windows. For more Durham Cathedral interior photographs click here.

Durham Cathedral The Millennium Window Mounted Print, this is printed on heavy weight 240gsm matte paper, which cuts down on reflections. Prints are made on an Epson P9000 printer with 11 inks, these give fantastic depth of colour and neutral and punchy black and white prints.

Durham Cathedral The Millennium Window Mounted Print is supplied mounted, not framed. The print comes in a white mount, ready for framing. It is packed with a strong backing card and is cello bagged to keep it clean. The mount is titled and signed by the photographer.

Choose from a 6×9″ print in an 14×11″ mount, or a 10×15″ print in a 20×16″ mount.

This photograph is also available as a greeting card, for more details, click here.

All mounted prints are now shipped by Royal Mail on a standard 48hr Tracked service with 24hr Tracked available.