E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Julia Miller, 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 25800-h.htm or 25800-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/8/0/25800/25800-h/25800-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/8/0/25800/25800-h.zip) Transcriber's note Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of changes is found at the end of the book. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained. A list of inconsistently spelled words is found at the end of the book. Text enclosed by equal signs was in bold face in the original (=bold text=). THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF RIPON A Short History of the Church & a Description of Its Fabric by CECIL HALLETT, B.A. Magdalen Coll., Oxford With 53 Illustrations [Illustration: RIPON CATHEDRAL FROM THE FOOTBRIDGE OVER THE SKELL.] [Illustration] London George Bell & Sons 1901 PREFACE. The original authorities for the history (both constitutional and architectural) of the Church of Ripon have been most ably edited for the Surtees Society by the Rev. Canon J. T. Fowler, F.S.A., in his _Memorials of Ripon_ and _The Ripon Chapter Acts_ (_Surtees Soc._, vols. 74, 78, 81, 64). These authorities range from the Saxon period to the times following the Reformation, but in the Introductions to vol. 81, and in the Rev. J. Ward's _Fasti Riponienses_, included in vol. 78, the story is virtually continued to our own day; while the aforesaid Introductions epitomise, in its constitutional and architectural aspects, the whole history of the church. To these volumes and to their Editor, who most kindly consented to revise the proofs of this book, the present writer is very deeply indebted. He has also had recourse to an article by Sir G. Gilbert Scott, R.A., in vol. xxxi. of the _Archaeological Journal_; to the same Author's _Recollections_; to several articles on the Saxon Crypt, duly specified on pp. 76, 77; to the Guides, by J. R. Walbran, F.S.A., published by Mr. Harrison of Ripon; to Mr. Murray's _Cathedrals_; to the volume by the Ven. Archdeacon Danks in Messrs. Isbister's Cathedral Series; to _A Day in the City of Ripon_, by Mr. George Parker of Ripon; to the old Guides by Farrer and Gent respectively; and to other works of a more general character.