Ely Cathedral The relief scenes were built into the wall, so each face or statue was individually hacked off, but leaving many finely carved details, and numerous puzzles as to what the original scenes showed. After the reformation it was redeployed as the Parish Church (Holy Trinity) for the town, a situation which continued up to 1938. The central octagonal tower, with its vast internal open space and its pinnacles and lantern above, forms the most distinctive and celebrated feature of the cathedral. However, what Pevsner describes as Ely's 'greatest individual achievement of architectural genius' came about through a disaster at the
Aversa Cathedral sculptures of its date. An outstanding collection of Baroque liturgical silver is kept in the treasury. Aversa Cathedral Aversa Cathedral (, "Cattedrale di San Paolo") is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Aversa in the province of Caserta, Campania, Italy. It has been the seat of the Bishop of Aversa from the bishopric's foundation in 1053. The Romanesque cathedral, dedicated to Saint Paul, has a spectacular ambulatory and an octagonal dome. Francesco Solimena's "Madonna of the Gonfalone" is kept here; the "Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" by the Quattrocento painter Angiolillo Arcuccio, now in the seminary, was here formerly.