E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 19881-h.htm or 19881-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/8/8/19881/19881-h/19881-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/8/8/19881/19881-h.zip) Transcriber's notes: 1. Words and phrases which were italicized in the original have been surrounded by underscores ('_') in this version. Words or phrases which were bolded have been surrounded by pound signs ('#'). 2. Obvious printer's errors have been corrected without note. 3. Inconsistencies in hyphenation and the spelling of proper names, dialect and obsolete word spellings, have been maintained as in the original. 4. Scribal abbreviations in the original text which used a tilde above a letter have been transcribed as [~x], where x is the letter over which the tilde appears. 5. A single letter super- or subscript is transcribed as '^' (super) or '_' (sub) followed by the letter. If multiple letters are super- or subscripted, these are enclosed in braces {} after the '^' or '_'. THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CARLISLE A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by C. KING ELEY With Twenty-Nine Illustrations [Illustration: CARLISLE CATHEDRAL FROM THE SOUTH-WEST. _A. Pumphrey, Photo._] [Illustration] London George Bell & Sons 1900 W.H. White And Co. Limited Riverside Press, Edinburgh GENERAL PREFACE This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide-books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to the student of Archaeology and History, and yet not too technical in language for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist. To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each case would be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst the general sources of information which have been almost invariably found useful are:--(1) the great county histories, the value of which, especially in questions of genealogy and local records, is generally recognised; (2) the numerous papers by experts which appear from time to time in the Transactions of the Antiquarian and Archaeological Societies; (3) the important documents made accessible in the series issued by the Master of the Rolls; (4) the well-known works of Britton and Willis on the English Cathedrals; and (5) the excellent series of Handbooks to the Cathedrals originated by the late Mr. John Murray; to which the reader may in most cases be referred for further detail, especially in reference to the histories of the respective sees.