A Guide to the Cathedrals of England and Wales
by MacKenzie Edward Charles Walcott (9780217423878)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Carlisle. Carlisle, a contraction of Caer-llu-gwell, ("The City of the Army by the AVall,") stands on an eminence at the confluence of three rivers?the Eden, Caldew, and Petrel. The. transept and nave of the Cathedral, which is of red freestone, quarried probably at Rickerby, were built by Walter, governor of Carlisle, in the reign of Henry I. The choir was commenced in the episcopate of Thomas of Appleby, 1363-96 after a disastrous fire in 1292. The great central tower and tabernacle-work in the choir were erected by William Strickland, bishop 1400-19. The door on the south side of the choir was built by Prior Haithwaite in 14-80, and the opposite door by Prior Senhouse in 1507, whose motto it bears: ? " Vulnera V Dei Sint medicina mihi." The screen, north of the choir, was built by Leonard Salkeld, prior, in 1523. The refectory, of the date of Richard II., is now the chapter-house. The Scots, under General Lesley, destroyed the greater portion of the nave, dormitory, chapterhouse, and cloisters to erect guardhouses and batteries in June 1645. The arches of the nave and transept are cylindrical, 14 ft. 2 in. in height, but 17 ft. 6 in. in circumference. The transept is narrow, small, and plain, without aisles. The tower, which contains a peal of six bells (one the gift of Bishop Strickland), is divided into two stories; the first has two windows each of two lights; the second has one of three lights on each face; at the north-east angle is an engaged turret. The east front of the choir contains a window of nine lights, 48 ft. high by 30 ft. in breadth, with rich tracery in the top, the most superb in England. Above it is a trian- gular window with foliated tracery. The gable is surmounted with a cross. Gigantic buttresses, with statues in niches and lofty crocket...

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