The Apse

Shortly after I had returned, we found ourselves invited to join a small tour group led by an amazingly knowledgeable gentleman. He directed us to the apse in the far rear of the cathedral, where he explained much about what had been destroyed during the Reformation and the English Civil War and why. He showed us a font that was perfectly intact except that every face of a saint had been chiseled off. He showed us places that had been restored by later generations.