An enormous art installation in Winchester Cathedral representing the potential impact of climate change on the UK's flora. Eye-catching most certainly, you could hardly miss it, if a little incongruous in such a location maybe? I must admit that at first I thought someone had been fly tipping.

It was certainly a statement piece and provided a great photo opportunity in a very weird sort of way. "It's a bit like finding a hippo in your carp pond" - to quote something I once heard somewhere.

Mostly what it was, after a while, was simply an eyesore and a nuisance. Yes, we got your message but you are a bit late with all of this. Shouldn't you have being doing this ten or twenty tears ago? Anyway, mostly the guided tours were just trying to find ways round this intrusive lump all the time.

There was also one perhaps unlooked for consequence to its presence. Its purpose was being subverted. Brown labels had been provided for people to write messages of support regarding climate change action and attach them to a pledge tree. Whilst some had done so, many others had used the tree to leave Gaza protest messages essentially subverting the installation's purpose.

Anyway, it did indeed make for a great, unusual and somewhat bizarre photo opportunity. 

So now back to more conventional or indeed even clichéd pictures of this grand old building. The choir stalls with a single candle in its stick in focus isolating it against the background of the rest of its brethren.

The choir looking back towards the nave with its gothic arches and with the pipes of the grand organ in the organ loft to the right above. 

The candelabrum that hangs directly in front of the high altar and to the side of Queen Emma of Normandy's mortuary chest.

The high altar with its stone screen and candelabrum hanging in front. The original statues on the screen were destroyed during the civil war and were replaced in the 19th century. No records of the originals remained so "appropriate" replacement designs were chosen for their renovation.

So there you have them, the modern with the Victorian with the medieval. All a story of propaganda, politics and power in the guise of religion. Makes for great photography though.