Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely: A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the SeeSweeting, W. D. (Walter Debenham)
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Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely: A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See
Sweeting, W. D. (Walter Debenham)
Ely Cathedral
The remains of the refectory and of the Norman kitchen are in the
deanery grounds. The guest-house is wholly absorbed in the deanery.
There is a picturesque entrance into the close, on the north side, from
High Street. The buildings on each side of it and the room above (now
the muniment room) are quite ecclesiastical, though modernised and in
part new. The eastern portion occupies the site of the sextry.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] "History," 1771, Plate IV.
[2] Another instance of imperfect acquaintance with church
architecture is found in one plan of the cathedral (not in
Bentham) in which the lady-chapel is called the chapter-house.
[3] At which the writer was present.
[4] "Ely Gossip," p. 5.
[5] _Ib._, p. 7.
INDEX.
Alban's, S., relics, 116, 118
Alcock, Bishop, 122;
his chapel, 35, 90--pl., 94, 112
Allen, Bishop, 130;
tomb, 90
Altar, often moved, 90
Andrewes, Bishop, 125
Apse, 19, 80
Arundel, Archbishop, 120
Barnet, Bishop, 26, 119;
tomb, 95
Basevi, Mr., fatal accident, 64;
brass 90
Belsham, Bishop, 117
Bishop, in abbot's stall, 29;
his sword of state, 129
Bishopric constituted, 15, 110
Bourchier, Archbishop, 120-1
Brithnoth, Abbot, 12, 102
Brithnoth, Alderman, 93, 103
Browne, Bishop, 131
Buckeridge, Bishop, 126
Butts, Bishop, 128
Canute, King, 105
Catharine's, S., chapel, 21, 64-5--pl., 63
Cathedrals of old foundation, 113
Choir, 77--pl., 53, 55, 79, 98;
aisles, 56--pl., 89, 122;
screen, 76--pl., 76;
compared with presbytery, 78
Cloister, 61
College of Secular Clergy, 12, 102
Compton, Bishop, 131
Cox, Bishop, 125
Cratendune, 8
Crauden, Prior, his chapel, 25, 131--pl., 131
Cromwell, Oliver, 29
Cross, S., church, 29, 49, 97
Dampier, Bishop, 128
De Burgh, Bishop, 116
De Fontibus, Bishop, 116
De L'Isle, Bishop, 25, 119
Dickson, Canon, 61
Dunstan, Archbishop, 11, 12
East End, 55
Edmund's, S., chapel, 75;
representation of his martyrdom, 90
Edward, Confessor, educated at Ely, 105
Elsin, Abbot, 12, 13, 103
Ely Cathedral, built, 13;
congregation ejected, 29;
in seventeenth century, 30;
in eighteenth century, 31--pl., 33
Ely, etymology, 4;
above sea level, 42;
population, 42
Ely, Isle of, 3, 9, 11, 13
Ely monastery, founded, 8;
destroyed by Danes, 10, 101;
reconstituted, 102;
monks and nuns, 99;
surrendered, 29;
mitred prior, 25
Ely Porta, 133--pl., 133
Ermenilda, S., Abbess, 15, 100
Etheldreda, S., foundress, 3-9;
translation, 15;
scenes from career on corbels, 6, 72;
churches dedicated to her, 7;
her shrine, 16,20,21, 89--pl., 20, 91;
S. Audrey's laces, 73
Ethelwold, Bishop, 11, 12
Eustace, Bishop, 17, 18, 66, 114
Felix, S., attempted seizure of his remains, 102
Felton, Bishop, 4, 126
Fitz-Alan, Archbishop, 120
Fleetwood, Bishop, 127
Fordham, Bishop, 120
Front, west, 17, 43
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