Total length (exterior) 342 ft. Length of nave to screen 158 ft. Breadth of nave 31 ft. Breadth of nave and aisles 73 ft. Height of nave 64 ft. Height of lantern 96 ft. Height of tower with pinnacles 165 ft. Length of choir to reredos 75 ft. Length of Lady Chapel and retro-choir 93 ft. Width of central transepts 146 ft. Width of eastern transepts 110 ft. PRINCIPAL BUILDING DATES Norman (1079-1115)--Main arcade of nave, arcade and triforium of choir, font, east wall of south transept, vestry. (1189-1199)--Retro-choir. Early English (1200-1250)--Lady Chapel, crypt. (1282-1287)--North transept. Decorated (1300-1360)--Walls and windows of aisles, choir transepts, upper part of tower, stalls and throne. Perpendicular (1400-1530)--Cloisters, windows in south transept, north porch, Audley and Stanbery Chantries. Modern--West front, triforium and clerestory of nave, east front, library. WORCESTER CATHEDRAL Worcester has many points of interest outside its Cathedral. All round the city is historic ground. It was the battlefield of Briton, Roman, Saxon, Dane and Norman. It heard the sounds of fighting in the wars of the barons and in the wars of the Roses, and in the great Civil War Worcester repeatedly suffered, and within its boundaries the great battle of Worcester was fought, the last effort of a dying cause. The half-timbered houses of the Elizabethan and early Stuart times, the interesting churches, and streets that by their names record many a curious custom and phase of old English life, all remind us of ancient times and the manners of our forefathers. We will walk round the town and note its chief points of interest. We notice the old houses in New Street, the remains of the old city wall, "the Cross," the old centre of civic life, the Guild Hall, designed by a pupil of Wren in 1721; St. Helen's Church, from the tower of which still nightly sounds the curfew. Along Sidbury the tide of battle rolled in 1651, when Charles II. was making his last gallant struggle against the army of the Protector. The old Edgar Gate is near at hand, which leads to the castle and Monastery of St. Mary.