Whether you agree with this statement or not, you cannot fail to find this historic church, that has stood there for nearly 800 years, awe-inspiring. Our visit left St. James's just after 9am and returned, following Evensong in the Cathedral, at around 8.30pm. It was a long but most enjoyable day and amazingly the weather was dry and mild!

Two groups were guided around the Cathedral and Chapter House, ours by an elderly and very erudite lady who pointed out many interesting things which might otherwise have been missed. The highlights in the Cathedral must be the Trinity Chapel and the beautiful, predominantly blue, east window by Gabriel Loire, dedicated to prisoners of conscience throughout the world, together with the embroidered altar cloth depicting 'Faith in the City' with its contrasts of wealth and poverty, comfort and suffering.

Following lunch at a local inn we were free to explore the city on our own before meeting for a tour of St Thomas's Church. The original church was highly decorated but most of this was destroyed during the Reformation. However a few fragments remain including three medieval paintings in the Lady Chapel. The most striking feature of the church is the Doom painting above the chancel arch depicting the final judgement, painted in about 1470.