Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle / A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See

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 Archæeology 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.
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.