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
Octagonal tiling From a Wythoff construction there are ten hyperbolic uniform tilings that can be based from the regular octagonal tiling. Drawing the tiles colored as red on the original faces, yellow at the original vertices, and blue along the original edges, there are 10 forms. Octagonal tiling In geometry, the octagonal tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It is represented by Schläfli symbol of "{8,3}", having three regular octagons around each vertex. It also has a construction as a truncated order-8 square tiling, t{4,8}. Like the hexagonal tiling of the Euclidean plane, there are 3 uniform colorings of