The beautiful Chapter-House is of Early English design, and was completed about 1230. It is ten-sided, and has a central pillar girt with Purbeck marble shafts, and a stone vaulted roof; lancet windows, filled with good modern glass enlighten the chamber, two in each side. An arcade runs round the walls beneath the windows, and in the carving we see the tooth ornament. There is a very ancient Chair of State here, which is said to have been the throne of Edward I. when he held his Parliament in this room.
[My grateful thanks are due to the Very Reverend the Dean of Lincoln for the great assistance which he has kindly rendered me in investigating the history of his Cathedral.]
Dimensions
| Total length | 482 ft. |
| Length of nave | 252 ft. |
| Breadth of nave with aisles | 80 ft. |
| Height of nave | 82 ft. |
| Length of choir | 158 ft. |
| Length of presbytery | 72 ft. |
| Height of central tower | 271 ft. |
| Height of west towers | 200 ft. |
| Area | 44,400 sq. ft. |
Principal Building Dates
- Norman (1074-1092)—Central part of west front, fragments of first bay of nave.
- (1123-1183)—West doors, arcade of west front, three lower storeys of west towers.
- Early English (1192-1253)—Choir and presbytery, nave, transept to west chapels, turrets and screen of west front, Galilee, vestries, two lower stages of tower and chapter-house.
- (1255-1296)—Angel Choir, cloisters.
- Decorated (1307-1380)—Upper storeys of tower, "Bishop's Eye," stalls, statues over west door, upper stages of west towers.
- (1450-1500)—Chapels.
- (1674)—North colonnade of cloister and library.
PLAN OF LINCOLN CATHEDRAL