AUTHOR'S PREFACE

The literature on the subject of Lincoln Minster is considerable, but scattered. The valuable researches of the late Precentor Venables published chiefly in the Archæological Journal, claim the first place among authorities consulted in the preparation of the present handbook. The works of Freeman, Scott, Rickman, and Parker have also been referred to. For the Episcopal Visitations, Prebendary Perry's account in the thirty-eighth volume of the Archæological Journal has been followed; and for the Inventories of the Treasures, that of Prebendary Wordsworth in the fifty-third volume of the Archæologia. Holinshed's "Chronicles," Bright's "Early English Church History," and the topographical works of Leland, Dugdale, Camden, and Stukeley, contain useful information on the subject. In the Rolls series, the chronicles of Henry of Huntingdon, Matthew Paris, Roger de Hoveden, and Giraldus Cambrensis, as well as the annals of various reigns and the "Magna Vita" of St. Hugh, have been consulted. A number of old guides in the Library of the British Museum contain useful MS. notes. Some of the other works referred to have been acknowledged in the pages of this book.

The author has to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr J. Shillaker and Mr G. H. Palmer for kind suggestions. Mr P. G. Trendell has prepared the list of the Bishops, and has given valued help in other ways. The illustrations are largely taken from photographs reproduced by the kindness of the Photochrom Co., Messrs S. B. Bolas & Co., Mr F. G. M. Beaumont, and Mr H. C. Oakden; others are from the Lincoln volume of the Proceedings of the Archæological Institute (1848).

A. F. K.

May 1898.

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I.—The History of the Building [3]
CHAPTER II.—The Exterior [43]
The West Front [44]
The Western Towers [55]
The Galilee Porch [57]
The Chapter Archives [59]
The Central Tower [59]
The Bells in the Central Tower [61]
The Presbytery [65]
The Chantry Chapels [68]
The East End [71]
The Minster Yard [74]
The Palace of the Bishops [76]
The Deanery [78]
The Cantelupe Chantry House [78]
The Vicars' Court [80]
CHAPTER III.—The Interior, including the Cloisters and Chapter-house [82]
The Ground Plan [83]
The Vestibule [83]
The Nave [86]
The Nave Pulpit [93]
The Central Tower [93]
The Western Transept [94]
The "Dean's Eye" and the "Bishop's Eye" [96]
The Screen [99]
St. Hugh's Choir [103]
The Choir Stalls [105]
The Bishop's Throne and the Pulpit [107]
The Reredos [108]
The Easter Sepulchre [109]
The South Aisle [110]
The Shrine of the Little St. Hugh [110]
The North Aisle [112]
The Eastern Transept [112]
The Dean's Chapel [115]
The Choristers' Vestry [118]
The Angel Choir [121]
The Lincoln Imp [125]
The Stained Glass [91], [126]
The Fleming Chantry [126]
The Russell Chantry [128]
Bishop Longland's Chantry [128]
The Monuments [92], [129]
The Cloisters [137]
The Library [141]
The Chapter-house [144]
CHAPTER IV.—List of the Bishops of Lincoln [145]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Lincoln from the South-West [Frontispiece]
The Cathedral from the South-West [2]
Old Map of Lincoln [7]
Seals of William De Roumara, Earl of Lincoln, and of Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln [12]
Seal of Henry De Lacy, Earl of Lincoln [13]
Monumental Crocket [16]
The Cathedral in the Seventeenth Century [21]
Early English Pier [25]
The West Front and the Exchequer Gate, by P. De Wint [33]
The Observatory Tower, Lincoln Castle [39]
The Stone Bow [42]
The West Front [45]
Carved Work of the Central Doorway at the West End [49]
The Minster from the Castle, by F. Mackenzie [53]
Galilee Porch, and South Side of the Nave [58]
The Central Tower, from the South [60]
The Minster from the Cloisters, by F. Mackenzie [63]
South-East Porch, with the Chantry Chapels of Bishops Longland and Russell [66]
Cast of the Figure of Christ, in the South-East Porch [67]
View from the South-East [69]
North Doorway of the Angel Choir [73]
North Side of the Angel Choir [75]
Elevation of the former Chapel of the Bishop's Palace, with Bishop Alnwick's Tower [77]
Plan of the Bishop's Palace, Lincoln, on the level of the Hall Floor [79]
View of the Ancient Deanery [80]
Part of the Ancient Deanery, with Dean Fleming's Tower [81]
Elevation of One Bay on the North Side of the Nave [84]
Half Section of the Nave, looking West [85]
The Nave, looking West [87]
Part of the Double Arcading of St. Hugh [89]
The West Transept, looking South [94]
Aisle Doorway, North of St. Hugh's Choir [100]
The Choir, looking East [101]
The East Transept, looking North [113]
Triforium on the West Side of St. Hugh's Transept [117]
North Side of the Angel Choir [119]
East End of the Angel Choir [123]
The Lincoln Imp [125]
Triforium of the Angel Choir [127]
Tomb of Sir Bartholomew Burghersh [133]
Bishop Wordsworth's Tomb [138]
The Cloisters, from the North-East Corner [139]
Arcade in the Chapter-house [141]
Capital in the Chapter-house [142]
The Chapter-house [143]
PLAN OF THE CATHEDRAL [150]