Magic Lantern Slide: West Front of Chester Cathedral
This photographic slide by William Weaver Baker shows the West front of Chester Cathedral. It is part of a set of slides Weaver Baker took of the Cathedral, probably while on holiday in the region. The window on the West front is in perpendicular style and believed to be part of the sixteenth-century building.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/411
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: West Front of Chester Cathedral
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'WEST FRONT CHESTER C.' on top edge; handwritten 'West Front of Chester Cathedral' on mount
- Period Classification
- Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Date
- 1934
- Production Person Initials
- W. Weaver
- Production Person Surname
- Baker
