{13b} The erections here so deservedly condemned were the remains of an old cloth hall, originally built for the stranger merchants frequenting the great annual fairs at Chester. These buildings occupied great part of the space now enclosed with railing on the S.W. side of the nave and St. Oswald’s Church, and were pulled down about 20 years ago. {14a} In the print of Chester Cathedral given in Willis’ _Survey of Cathedrals_, A.D. 1727, the battlements and rich crocketted pinnacles are shown as existing then. The South end of the South Transept is also shewn to have been richly decorated with niches. {14b} Probably H. Cholmondeley, who was Dean of Chester, from 1806 to 1815.