Lincoln Cathedral Postcard

A rendering of Lincoln Cathedral, in Lincoln, England, seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Add your own text. Also called Lincoln Minster, or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, and sometimes St Mary's Cathedral, it is one of the few English cathedrals built from the rock it is standing on. Construction began in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the High Middle Ages. Like many of the medieval cathedrals of England it was built in the Early Gothic style. The cathedral is the fourth largest in the UK (in floor area) at around 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft), after Liverpool, St Paul's and York Minster. It is highly regarded by architectural scholars; the Victorian writer John Ruskin declared: "I have always held ... that the cathedral of Lincoln is out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles and roughly speaking worth any two other cathedrals we have."