A finer association of beautiful and mournful objects could not well be imagined than is here presented to us. The most graceful trees, arranged in delightful groups, hang over the decayed tombs, which are carpeted to their base by a green sward, covered with flowers. As we pass along, we get a view of the deanery, and at the end of the eastern part of the church we see Tout Hill with the Training College for schoolmasters on the left, and the pretty villa in the vineyard, with a splendid avenue of old elm trees leading to it by a broad gravel walk. We pass likewise the large painted window, and as we turn the eastern end of the building, we catch a glimpse of the ruins of the infirmary and great hall, with their magnificent arches and ivy clad columns. Proceeding round to the southern side of the cathedral, we enter the square, where are the ruins of the cloisters, through a fine old door-way with a pointed arch, surmounting others of a circular form, and enriched with sculptural mouldings and figures. The southern and western walls of the cloisters remain, and contain a singular variety of tracery, mouldings, columns, and door-ways. Two door-ways to the southern aisles of the nave are also seen in the cloisters--one having a semicircular arch, with archivolt mouldings, enriched with the chevron and other Norman ornaments; the other in the pointed or gothic style, with raised mouldings, and supported by slender shafts at the sides.[29] At the southern extremity of the cloisters is another door-way of the same style and character as that by which we entered them, which leads through the bishop's garden to the palace.[30] Passing along the western wall of the cloisters we go through a plain Norman door-way, which brings us again, by a narrow passage, to the west front of the cathedral. The Dimensions _Of the several parts of the Cathedral are as follows:--_ The breadth of the west front, measuring from corner to corner on the outside of it, is 156 feet. The length of the whole cathedral, measured on the outside of it, is 471 feet. In this measurement are included the most prominent buttresses at the west and east ends. The distance from the inside of the west door of the cathedral to the organ screen at the entrance into the choir is 267 feet. From the organ screen to the altar screen, 117 feet. From the altar table to the east window 38 feet. So that the distance from the west door to the east window is 422 feet. The length of the two cross aisles or transepts within, including the diameter of the lantern, 180 feet. The breadth of the nave within, measuring from the south wall to the north wall, is 78 feet; that is half the breadth of the west front. From the floor of the nave to its painted wooden roof is a height of 81 feet. The height of the lantern within the church is 135 feet. The whole height of it without is 150 feet. The height of each gothic arch at the west front of the cathedral is 82 feet.