Worcester Cathedral II: The Interior

   The interior of the cathedral is dim and cavernous.  The furniture and decoration, which are mainly mid-Victorian, have an astonishing richness and opulence - encaustic tiles, marble, mosaic, metal-work and gilding that have turned the cathedral into a schatz-kammer - and are the work of Sir George Gilbert Scott. I particularly like the inlaid cross on the back face of the High Altar reredos. In all the sort of work that earned the opprobrium of later architectural critics such as Alec Clifton Taylor who hated it all, and longed for its removal as had by then already happened at Salisbury. There is work too by that master of the Late Gothic Revival, George Frederick Bodley.  Amongst the many tombs and monuments are two royal burials:  King John and Prince Arthur (the eldest son of Henry VII).