Salisbury Cathedral
This is the Chapter House, notable for its octagonal shape, a slender central pillar and decorative medieval frieze, which is 58 feet in diameter and 52 feet in height. It was built between 1263 and 1284 in Edward I’s reign by Richard the Mason, and around the walls are 49 seats for the members of the Chapter. Quite apart from the Protestant determination to remove statuary, the Chapter House was also used as a prison in the 17th century and was in a perilous state before it was restored and redecorated in 1855–9 by William Burges. The frieze depicts scenes and stories from the books of Genesis and Exodus. Here we have Adam and Eve in their still-innocent nakedness, Eve holding out the apple to Adam. Below is a presumably 19th-century figure, gurning as he knows what's going to happen next. If you look closely (in spite of the slightly blurry shot) there is a female head in the tree, presumably the head of the snake, which also confusingly seems to have lizard-like legs - unless there was someone else in the story who I've forgotten about...
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