How to Visit the English CathedralsSingleton, Esther
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How to Visit the English Cathedrals
Singleton, Esther
Cathedrals -- England
Little or nothing is known of the life of Bishop
Bridport.”--(R. J. K.)
At the end of the north aisle of the Lady-Chapel and at the end of the
south aisle, directly opposite, are two monuments that will interest the
visitor. The first is a medley of obelisks, globes, spheres and the Four
Cardinal Virtues and effigies of =Sir Thomas Gorges= and his widow,
maid-of-honour to Queen Elizabeth. The second is a gorgeous tribute to
=Edward, Earl of Hertford=, son of the Protector Somerset and of his wife,
Catherine, Lady Jane Grey’s sister. The effigies are praying; the Earl
is in armour. The whole piece is gilded and coloured.
Very little ancient glass remains in Salisbury.
“The fragments that survived were collected some fifty years since,
and placed in the nave windows, and in parts of some of the others.
The most important are in the great west triple lancet, wherein the
glass ranges in date from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century. Mr.
Winston, in his Paper read in 1849 before the Archæological
Institute and printed in the Salisbury volume for that year,
considered that the earliest fragments are from a Stem of Jesse
about 1240 and some medallions about 1270. He describes two of the
ovals that are on each side of the throned bishop, a prominent
figure in the lower half of the central light, one of the Christ
enthroned, the other of the Virgin. The two medallions below them
he believes represent Zacharias in the Temple and the Adoration of
the Magi. The later glass now in the same window may be either
Flemish work brought hither from Dijon, or possibly partly from
Rouen, and partly from a church near Exeter. It has been
conjectured that in the south lancet the figures represent SS.
Peter and Francis, in the central one the Crucifixion, the
Coronation of the Virgin and the Invention of the Cross, and in the
north light the Betrayal of Christ and St. Catherine. In two of
the side windows of the nave are the arms of John Aprice
(1555-1558) and Bishop Jewell (1562).”--(G. W.)
In the south-choir-aisle is =Jacob’s Dream= in memory of the Duke of
Albany and there are also two of the proposed six angel-windows--=Angeli
Ministrantes= and the =Angeli Laudantes=--designed by Sir Edward
Burne-Jones and made by William Morris. These are considered among the
best examples of glass-painting since the Middle Ages.
The =Chapter-House= is a very fine type of an English chapter-house of the
Thirteenth Century, when geometrical tracery was in vogue. It probably
dates from the reign of Edward the First.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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