DOUGHTY’S HOSPITAL, in Calvert Street, was founded in 1687, by William Doughty, who bequeathed £6000 for building and endowing it, for 24 poor men and 8 poor women, of the age of 60. Since its foundation, the hospital has been augmented by several benefactions. It is a square building of almshouses, with a garden in the centre. Each inmate has a tenement of one room for his or her own use, and there is one of two rooms, the residence of the master. There is now accommodation for 28 men and 16 women, who each receive 5s. 6d. per week, and the master 11s. per week. Each has also a supply of coals, and a suit of purple clothing annually, with other advantages. The CATHEDRAL is one of the chief ornaments of the city, and is a very fine edifice, principally in the Norman style of architecture. It has a nave and choir, with aisles, transept, several small chapels, chapterhouse, and cloisters. These, with the Bishop’s Palace and the Deanery, constitute a great mass of ecclesiastical buildings. The Cathedral is 407 feet long, and the breadth across the transept 178 feet, and across the nave and aisles 72 feet. The cloisters form a square of 174 feet, inner dimensions. The large west window is composed of elegant perpendicular tracery, and contains some elegant stained glass, inserted as a memorial of the late Bishop Stanley. On the south side of the nave, between the sixth and seventh pillars, is the tomb of Chancellor Spenser, upon which, in accordance with the leases, the dean and chapter formerly demanded the payment of their rents; and between the next pillars stands the tomb of Bishop Nix, a violent persecutor of the Reformers, who erected the roof of the transepts. He suffered a long imprisonment for aiding the cause of the pope against Henry VIII. The space which this tomb occupies, as well as that between the two next pillars to the west, was formerly enclosed as a chapel, the roof of which is remaining, displaying obtuse arches inserted between the Norman piers; the vaulting, which is rich, is considered a good specimen of the latest florid style. On the west side of the ninth pier, on the same side, is the tomb of Bishop Parkhurst, the eminent lexicographer, a very excellent prelate, and a great promoter of the reformed religion. In the ninth arch of the south wall is a monument to Dean Gardiner. Opposite, on the east side of the ninth pier, is the tomb of Sir James Hobart, attorney-general to Henry VII. A chapel was formerly enclosed here, which belonged to the Hobart family. In the centre of the nave will be observed a chaste marble slab, which covers the remains of the late highly-esteemed Bishop Stanley. The Bishop’s Palace is partly Norman. It has a grand hall and a large chapel. The Deanery and Prebendal Houses are the remains of the Priory. Among the cathedral appurtenances are three ancient gates of remarkable structure—the Erpingham gate, St. Ethelbert’s gate, and St. Martin’s Palace gate.