This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...to provide against danger owing to the settlement of the central pillars of the portico, or, it has been suggested, it was erected as a Galilee porch with a Consistory Court above it, in order to restore its proper dignity to the central arch, which had been contracted to show as much as possible of the side ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...to provide against danger owing to the settlement of the central pillars of the portico, or, it has been suggested, it was erected as a Galilee porch with a Consistory Court above it, in order to restore its proper dignity to the central arch, which had been contracted to show as much as possible of the side doorways from without. Battlements were substituted for the conical cappings of the turrets of the transepts, and Perpendicular tracery inserted in the great Norman windows of the nave and transept, for their enrichment with stained glass, and the great west window; the wooden screens of the transepts and vaulting of the choir were added at the close of the 15th century. The windows of the central lantern are of three lights, cinquefoiled with quatrefoils in the head. There are two in each 'face, set between three blank traceried windows. The New Building, or Lady Chapel, commenced by R. Ashton, abbot 1438, was completed by B. Kirton, about 1496: this chapel was built in this lateral position, owing to the Martyr's Cross and stone of Hedda occupying the space to the east. It has five four-light Perpendicular windows on the east front. The Chapter-house, formerly the Hostelry Chapel, to the west of the South Transept, is of Transitional Norman. The ancient Font, of Alwalton marble, is in the southwest transept. The organ was built by Allen, of Sutton Street, Soho, in 1809. The West Front of the Cathedral consists of three arcades, the lower with three doors, the upper having three-light windows, recessed behind three lofty pointed arches, unequalled in the world for simple grandeur and majestic beauty; the gable and pointed arch, grouped, form the loveliest architecture. Behind these are Two Towers, one unfinished above the roof on the south;...
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