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This is a super-wide-angle view of the Chapter House in Lincoln Cathedral, England. It seems to have become quite a sought after location for movie sets, having been used for the filming of The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks in August 2005 where, along with the cloisters, it took on the role of Westminster Abbey, as the Abbey had refused to permit filming. To make the Lincoln Chapter House appear similar to the Westminster Chapter House, murals were painted on a special layer over the existing wall, and elsewhere polystyrene replicas of Isaac Newton's tomb and other Abbey monuments were set up. For a time these murals and replicas remained in the Chapter House, as part of a Da Vinci Code exhibit for visitors, but in January 2008 they were all sold off in an auction to raise money for the cathedral.

The cathedral also doubled as Westminster Abbey for the film Young Victoria, filmed in September 2007, and again in June 2018 for the Netflix Shakespeare film The King. In 2019 the cathedral was featured in the Amazon motoring television series The Grand Tour, during which the presenters hosted a funeral for the mid-size Ford saloon as part of the third season's final episode.

Lincoln Cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the High Middle Ages. It is the fourth largest cathedral in the UK (in floor area) at around 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft), after Liverpool, London St Paul's and York Minster. Like many of the medieval cathedrals of England it was built in the Early Gothic style.

Although the piano looks very small in this photo, it's really an optical illusion created by the stereographic projection I've used to render this spherical panorama. The piano is actually a regular-sized grand piano and the Chapter House is quite a small room. The nature of stereographic projection is that the outer parts of the image are stretched and become disproportionately large compared to the central area.

Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Cathedral

Taken on: September 26, 2020

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