The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and ArchitectureDitchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
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The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and Architecture
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
Cathedrals -- Great Britain; Church architecture -- Great Britain
honour to Queen Charlotte (1820).
The _Lady Chapel_, which has two aisles, is earlier than the west end
of the choir. The wall arcade is very rich and beautiful. We notice
the brass rings supposed to have been placed round the columns by
Bishop Gifford. The east wall is entirely new, and the tracery of the
windows is a modern restoration of ancient work. There are some
curious grotesque carvings. The _North Choir Aisle_ has some beautiful
capitals and bosses; a small oval window of Perpendicular date looks
on to this aisle, and was formerly the window of the sacrist's
chamber, through which he could watch the great shrines. There is a
curious carving under one of the windows.
The principal _Monuments_ in the Lady Chapel are:--
A mural slab to the memory of Anne, wife of _Isaac Walton_, the
prince of anglers, who probably wrote the inscription:
"_Ex-terris._--M.S. Here lyeth buried so much as could die of
Anne, the wife of Isaac Walton, who was a woman of remarkable
prudence, and of Primitive Piety. Her great and generale
knowledge being adorned with such true humility, and blest with
so much Christian meeknesse as made her worthy of a more
memorable monument. She died (alas that she is dead!) the 17th
of April 1662, aged 52. Study to be like her."
Bishop John Jenkinson (1840) of St. David's.
Prebendary Davison (1834), who wrote his famous work on
_Prophecy_.
An unknown lady of the fourteenth century, one of the most
beautiful mediæval relics in the Cathedral.
William, first Earl of Dudley (1885).
George William, fourth Baron Lyttelton (1886).
Bishop William de Blois (1236).
Bishop Walter de Cantelupe (1265).
Mutilated effigy of Bishop Brian (1361) or Lynn (1373).
Bishop Cobham (1327).
Bishop Walter de Bransford (1349).
An unknown lady of the thirteenth century.
An unknown knight, _temp._ Henry III.
Last Abbot of Evesham.
The _Crypt_ is a very interesting part of the Cathedral, the work of
St. Wulstan, begun in 1084. We notice the fine Norman piers with
cushion capitals and square abaci. It is apsidal with aisles, and is
remarkable for the numerous pillars. Here in this crypt Wulstan
assembled a synod in 1092, when were assembled all the wisest men from
the counties of Worcester, Gloucester and Warwick. Here used to be
preserved the old fourteenth-century doors of the Cathedral, which
were said to be covered with human skin, which tradition says was
flayed from the body of a man who stole the sanctus bell.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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