Durham Cathedral from the Weir

A black and white study from the riverbank, the weir silked by a long exposure in the foreground, the old fulling mill above it, and the cathedral's three great towers stacked over the bare winter trees. Portrait format, layered and monumental.

Durham Cathedral was built in the late 11th and early 12th centuries to house the shrines of St Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede, and is the finest example of Norman architecture in England. With the castle beside it, the cathedral crowns a peninsula formed by a loop of the River Wear.