Eustache (1198-1215), one of the bishops appointed to excommunicate King John, built the celebrated =Galilee Porch= at the west end. He contributed large sums out of his private fortune. Hugh Norwold, or Northwold (1229-1254), built the six eastern bays of the presbytery, and the palace. Again were the remains of St. Etheldreda, St. Sexburga, St. Ermenilda, and St. Withburga removed to this part of the church, and the Cathedral was dedicated in 1252. King Henry III. and Prince Edward were present. When Bishop Norwold died (1254), he was buried at the feet of St. Etheldreda. His monument was removed to the north side of the presbytery, third arch from the east. John Hotham (1316-1337) built the choir. It was during his bishopric that the Tower fell, and he provided for the building of the wrecked western bays. The Fourteenth Century brings us to the greatest of all the Ely builders, the supreme artist and architect, Alan de Walsingham, sub-prior, sacrist, and finally prior. In 1321 he began the =Lady-Chapel=, which was finished in 1349. Its position is [Illustration: ELY: WEST TOWERS] [Illustration: ELY: CHOIR, EAST] peculiar--north-east of the north transept. Its site was chosen in all probability because St. Etheldreda’s shrine occupied the sacred east end. Walsingham’s great work, however, is the celebrated =Octagon=. On the eve of St. Ermenilda’s Day, February 12, 1322, just after the monks had finished matins, the central tower fell and destroyed three bays of the choir. There was no wicked king in this case to blame for the calamity, as was the case with the similar tower built by Simeon’s brother at Winchester (see pages 55-56). “No one could possibly have been found in the whole kingdom better qualified to cope with the great disaster that took place at Ely in 1322 than the officer of the house who had the special custody of the fabric. The originality and skill with which he designed and carried out the noble work that takes the place of the central tower, which is without a rival in the architecture of the whole world, are beyond all praise. The exquisite work in the Lady-Chapel would in itself have been sufficient to establish Walsingham’s reputation as an architect of the very highest order of merit; but it would have revealed nothing, if it stood alone, of the consummate constructive genius which he displayed in the conception of the octagon.