Bells Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle

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

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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

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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 Archæology 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 Archæological 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