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Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester: A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's HospitalPerkins, Thomas, Rev.

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Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester: A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital

Name: Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester: A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital
Author: Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

Manchester Cathedral (England)

The total number of benefices in the diocese in the year 1900 was 550,
of beneficed clergy, 525, and of assistant curates about 360.

The cathedral church is calculated to afford accommodation for 2000
persons.

Since the foundation of the see it has been presided over by three bishops.

The first was the Right Rev. =James Prince Lee=, D.D., F.R.S., for many
years headmaster of King Edward's School, Birmingham, and a distinguished
scholar. He was elected in 1847, and consecrated in the first month of
the following year by the Archbishop of York and the Bishops of Chester
and Worcester. He died in 1869 at Mauldeth Hall, Heaton Mersey, and was
buried in Heaton Mersey Churchyard.

He was succeeded by the Right Rev. =James Fraser=, D.D., who when at
Oxford had gained the Ireland Scholarship, and became a Fellow of Oriel
College. He was a man of great intellectual power, of kindly manner, and
won the respect and confidence not only of Churchmen, but of members of
all denominations, especially of the mill hands of his populous diocese.
He was nominated to the see in January 1890, and consecrated in March of
the same year. He died 22nd October 1885 at Manchester, and is buried in
the churchyard of Ufton Nervet, Berks.

The present bishop, the Right Rev. =James Moorhouse=, D.D., was translated
from the see of Melbourne to that of Manchester in 1886.


DIMENSIONS OF MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL.


  Ft.
  Total length over all, exterior,                                  248
  Width,                                                            173
  Length of Nave and Choir, interior,                               172
  Width of Nave exclusive of Projections, interior,                 114
  Distance from Rood Screen to Screen of Lady Chapel,                88
  Length and breadth of Tower, exterior exclusive of buttresses,     28
  Length of Lady Chapel, E. to W., interior,                         18
  Width of Lady Chapel, N. to S., interior,                          19
  Width of Nave,                                                     27
  Width of inner Nave Aisles,                                        16
  Width of outer North Aisle of Nave,                                24
  Width of outer South Aisle of Nave,                                22
  Projection South Porch beyond Wall of aisle,
      exclusive of buttresses,                                       22
  Projecting of North Porch, beyond walls of aisle,
      exclusive of buttresses,                                       25
  Width of South Porch, interior,                                    11
  Width of North Porch, interior,                                    13
  Diameter of Chapter House interior,                                19
  Height of Roof, interior,                                          50
  Height of Tower,                                                  140

  Area, about 18,000 sq. ft.




CHETHAM'S HOSPITAL AND LIBRARY


[Illustration: THE HALL, CHETHAM'S HOSPITAL.]

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Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester: A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital

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