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Leicester Cathedral’s new extension to open in June….

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from the BBC link given as a Shorturl below

Well, the new extension to Leicester Cathedral will open next month (Saturday 14 June), see https://shorturl.at/85uxK. I wasn’t impressed when I saw the early “artist’s impression” (although I was remarkably restrained in a previous post https://murreyandblue.co.uk/2017/12/15/a-new-extension-for-leicester-cathedral-thanks-to-richard/ Not like me at all! 🙄)  

Now the horrible thing, started in 2021, has been finished and I’m totally unimpressed. It’s unlike the original artist’s impression, which was bad enough.

taken from the Leicester Mercury – the complete image can be seen in the
Murrey and Blue link above of 2017/12/15

How on earth did anyone imagine that something resembling an electricity substation or an early electric toaster would ever fit in with an originally Norman building? When King Charles was Prince of Wales, he once remarked that modern architecture produced “monstrous carbuncles”. He sure was right in this instance!

Leicester Cathedral has done itself no favours with this one, and I’m pretty sure that far from being impressed, Richard III would have been utterly appalled. And after all that he’s done for Leicester!!!!!

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3 responses to “Leicester Cathedral’s new extension to open in June….”

  1. Anne Ayres Avatar
    Anne Ayres

    I entirely agree with you!

    The best thing to come out of that whole farago of nonsense was the televised archaeological dig before work commenced.

    I strongly suspect the hand of the previous Dean behind this monstrosity, before he went up to York.

    A “modernist” to his core, he was also responsible for the Lego block that is Richard’s tomb.

    I just wonder what damage and havoc he is wreaking up there?

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    1. M.E. Lawrence Avatar
      M.E. Lawrence

      I can live with the tomb, so to speak, but the extension looks–unfortunate. The cathedral environs were pretty charming when I visited in 2023, and felt more or less historic/medieval. Now I’m worried.

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  2. jay Avatar
    jay

    looks like something that might have been built in soviet era eastern europe. to call it an ‘unsympathetic development’ is probably my understatement of the year. a deliberate act of disrespect or just sheer bad taste? i guess we all might have an opinion….

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