How to Visit the English CathedralsSingleton, Esther
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How to Visit the English Cathedrals
Singleton, Esther
Cathedrals -- England
The visitor should walk around the =Cloisters= for the sake of the
exterior views of the Cathedral. The south transept window is well seen
here. Note the beautiful tracery of the circular window above it. The
position of the Cloisters, lying eastward under the Transept and Choir,
instead of westward along the Nave, is unusual.
“The cloister which was added in the Fifteenth Century is of a
peculiarly irregular shape, and encloses the south transept within
the paradise. It has been much restored at different times. The
present roof is of tiles and is carried on common rafters. Each has
a cross tie, and the struts are shaped so as to give a pointed arch
form to each one. The old Fifteenth Century wooden cornice still
remains in some sections. The tracery is divided into four
compartments by mullions, and each head is filled with cusped work.
Round the cloister are placed the old houses of the Treasurer, the
Royal Chaplains, and Wiccamical Prebendaries. Above the door
leading to the house of the Royal Chaplains is an interesting
monument of the Tudor Period. It is a panel divided into two
compartments by a moulded stone fragment. Leading out of the south
walk is a doorway, through which the deanery may be seen beyond the
end of a long walled passage known as ST. RICHARD’S WALK. Looking
back northwards, there is fine view of the spire and transept from
the end of this walk.”--(H. C. C.)
In the south-east corner the Cloister passes under the west end of =St.
Faith’s Chapel=, founded in the Fourteenth Century.
SALISBURY
DEDICATION: ST. MARY; A CHURCH SERVED BY SECULAR CANONS.
SPECIAL FEATURES: SPIRE; CHAPTER-HOUSE.
Salisbury, on the edge of the great Salisbury Plain, haunted by
Ingoldsby’s “Dead Drummer” and not far from weird Stonehenge, is famous
for its beautiful Early English Cathedral.
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