Bells Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of?by C. King Eley

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of
Carlisle, by C. King Eley
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
Author: C. King Eley

Release Date: November 20, 2006 [eBook #19881]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BELL'S CATHEDRALS: THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CARLISLE***
E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/)

Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 19881-h.htm or 19881-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/8/8/19881/19881-h/19881-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/8/8/19881/19881-h.zip)
Transcriber's notes:
1. Words and phrases which were italicized in the original have been surrounded by underscores ('') in this version. Words or phrases which were bolded have been surrounded by pound signs ('#').
2. Obvious printer's errors have been corrected without note.
3. Inconsistencies in hyphenation and the spelling of proper names, dialect and obsolete word spellings, have been maintained as in the original.
4. Scribal abbreviations in the original text which used a tilde above a letter have been transcribed as [~x], where x is the letter over which the tilde appears.
5. A single letter super- or subscript is transcribed as '^' (super) or '' (sub) followed by the letter. If multiple letters are super- or subscripted, these are enclosed in braces {} after the '^' or ''.

THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CARLISLE
A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
by
C. KING ELEY
With Twenty-Nine Illustrations

[Illustration: CARLISLE CATHEDRAL FROM THE SOUTH-WEST. A. Pumphrey, Photo.]
[Illustration]

London George Bell & Sons 1900 W. H. White and Co. Limited Riverside Press, Edinburgh

GENERAL PREFACE
This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide-books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to the student of Arch?ology and History, and yet not too technical in language for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist.
To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each case would be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst the general sources of information which have been almost invariably found useful are:--(1) the great county histories, the value of which, especially in questions of genealogy and local records, is generally recognised; (2) the numerous papers by experts which appear from time to time in the Transactions of the Antiquarian and Arch?ological Societies; (3) the important documents made accessible in the series issued by the Master of the Rolls; (4) the well-known works of Britton and Willis on the English Cathedrals; and (5) the excellent series of Handbooks to the Cathedrals originated by the late Mr. John Murray; to which the reader may in most cases be referred for further detail, especially in reference to the histories of the respective sees.
GLEESON WHITE. EDWARD F. STRANGE.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE
Amongst the works consulted in compiling this handbook may be specially mentioned Nicolson and Burn's "History and Antiquities of Westmoreland and Cumberland," Hutchinson's "History and Antiquities of the City of Carlisle," Jefferson's "History and Antiquities of Carlisle," Billings' "Architectural Illustrations, History and Description of Carlisle Cathedral," "Guide to the Cathedral, Carlisle," by R.H. and K.H.
Much help has also been obtained from the late J.R. Green's historical works, as well as the various biographies in the "National Dictionary of Biography."
I also wish to record my thanks to my friend, Mr. A. Tapley, who kindly read through part of the manuscript; and to Mr. A. Pumphrey for permission to reproduce the photographs used.
C.K.E.

CONTENTS
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
--History of the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity 3
CHAPTER II.
--The Cathedral, Exterior 12 The Nave 12 The North Transept 15 The Tower 15 The North Aisle of the Choir 16 The East End 19 The Choir 21
CHAPTER III.
--The Cathedral, Interior 25 The Nave 25 The Font and Organ 26, 28 The North Transept 28 The Tower 30 The South Transept 30 St. Catherine's Chapel 32 Monuments in the Transepts 34 The Choir 39 The Triforium 42 The Clerestory 44 The Roof 44 The Hammer-beams 45 The East Window 46 The Salkeld Screen 52 The Bishop's Throne and Pulpit 53 The North Choir Aisle 54 Monuments in the North Choir Aisle 56 Legendary Paintings 58 The Retro-choir 66 Monuments in the South Choir Aisle 68 The Bells 70 The Monastic Buildings 73 The Fratry 73 The Deanery 74
CHAPTER IV.
--History of the See 75
CHAPTER V.
--The Castle 89

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE The Cathedral from the South-West FrontispieceArms of the Diocese Title