On the Architectural History of Chester Cathedral

Transcribed from the 1864 Courant Office edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
BY THOMAS RICKMAN,
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.
A PAPER READ BEFORE
The Architectural, Archæological, and Historic Society of Chester.
BY THE REV. CANON BLOMFIELD.
CHESTER: PRINTED AT THE COURANT OFFICE, NORTHGATE STREET.
1864.

BY THOMAS RICKMAN, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR BY THE REV. CANON BLOMFIELD.
Rickman therefore deserves a higher place in the temple of Fame than he appears at present to occupy. The habit of laborious and patient investigation, the sound and discriminating judgment, the faculty of nice and accurate comparison, which enabled him, wholly unaided by the science or labour of others, to work out for himself that simple yet clear and comprehensive system, which secured this branch of architectural science from the ignorance and bad taste of preceding centuries, and established it on a fixed and certain basis, ought to place him in the foremost rank of men who have contributed to the advancement of useful knowledge.
As the history of his life and labours is but little known, it may be an acceptable introduction to the reading of this Report on Chester Cathedral, if we preface it with a short biographical Memoir.