English Cathedrals Illustrated: Second and Revised EditionBond, Francis
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English Cathedrals Illustrated: Second and Revised Edition
Bond, Francis
Cathedrals -- England; Cathedrals -- Wales
To the late Perpendicular or Tudor period belong the eastern, northern,
and western walks of the cloister, which should be visited next. In
part of the west walk, and in the new south walk, there is a double
arcade; dividing the walks into a series of separate compartments or
studies for the monks. An analogous arrangement occurs in the cloisters
of Gloucester. Notice, also, the _insouciance_ with which these Tudor
builders dropped the ribs of their vaults down on earlier doors and
arches. Similar reckless disregard of the good work of preceding builders
occurs at Canterbury, where the most beautiful doorway in the Cathedral
is cut into by later vaulting.
_North Aisle of Nave._—This has been recased, and provided with rich
vaulting. It was to provide abutment for this new vault that the south
walk of the cloister was rebuilt. The nave and choir have been vaulted in
wood; following the precedents of York Minster and Selby Abbey.
The exterior is, to all intents and purposes, nineteenth-century work.
The original design had almost wholly disappeared through the decay
of the soft sandstone. It is, however, very handsome and effective;
especially in contrast with the exterior, equally new, of Worcester.
[Illustration: NAVE, NORTH SIDE.]
Of minor work the chief objects of interest are the Byzantine font,
perhaps of the eighth century; the remains of the fourteenth-century
shrine of St. Werburgh and the contemporary sedilia; the fine misereres
and stalls (Perpendicular); the Renaissance gates of Spanish ironwork,
and the Renaissance candelabra (Italian); the epitaphs of John Lowe,
tobacconist, John Paul, publican, and John Phillips, merchant, in the
south transept; those of Mayor Green, and an American loyalist, on the
south-west pier of the tower; the tablet of Randolph Caldecott and the
pretentious monument of Bishop Pearson in the north transept; the tablet
of Dean Arderne in the south aisle of the choir; and in the north aisle
those of Subdean Bispham and Bishop Jacobson, and the epitaph on the
gravestone of E. P. Gastrell. The new organ rests on five Renaissance
columns brought from Italy; the communion table is of wood from the Holy
Land. On the wall near the west door is a tablet to Bishop Hall, and
another
To the Memory of
JOHN MOORE NAPIER
Captain in Her Majesty’s 62nd Regiment
Who died of Asiatic Cholera
in Scinde
on the 7th of July, 1846,
Aged 29 years.
The tomb is no record of high lineage;
His may be traced by his name;
His race was one of soldiers.
Among soldiers he lived; among them he died;
A soldier falling, where numbers fell with him,
In a barbarous land.
Yet there was none died more generous,
More daring, more gifted, or more religious.
On his early grave
Fell the tears of stern and hardy men,
As his had fallen on the graves of others.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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