_Apropos_ of the question of the dedication, the arms of the see may be briefly considered. The original arms were Azure, two keys in saltire, or. By the fifteenth century the sword for St. Paul had become incorporated with the crossed keys, and it is found upon the bells and also on the east side of the organ case. At the Dissolution the arms were Gules, two keys in saltire surmounted by a sword in pale, argent. Brown Willis, in 1727, wrote that "the old arms of this see as used 100 years ago, were three chevronels, the middle one charged with a mitre, but the bishops now give _Azure, two keys in saltire, or._" FOOTNOTES: [1] So says the MS. Lives of the Abbots in the Library of Queen's College, Oxford. [2] Formerly a canon of the Church of Avranches, and afterwards a monk in the Church of Mont St. Michel. CHAPTER II THE EXTERIOR Of the building as originally constructed, practically the whole, as far as the outline is concerned, may be said to remain as it was at the beginning of the twelfth century. The massive Norman nave, the slype or covered passage that is between the Deanery and the north-west wall of the cathedral, the two transepts with their turrets, the choir with its various chapels and aisles, the chapter-house, and the Abbot's cloister, are all parts of the original building, although later additions have partly concealed them. In Mr Waller's "Notes and Sketches of Gloucester Cathedral"[1] a very interesting view is given of the cathedral stripped of every addition of a later date than the original structure, and by his permission it is here reproduced. With reference to this sketch Mr Waller says: