. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . vement extending over twelveor thirteen years. The see has the peculiarity of being almost wholly cut out ofanother not much more than half a century older than itself. In the year pre-ceding the accession of the Queen the greater part of the West Riding and a portionof the northern division of the county received episcopal privileges apart fromYork, the ancient Bishopric of Ripon, dormant from pre-Reformation times, beingrevived for the pmpose. In its resuscitated form the diocese of Ripon had somethr
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . vement extending over twelveor thirteen years. The see has the peculiarity of being almost wholly cut out ofanother not much more than half a century older than itself. In the year pre-ceding the accession of the Queen the greater part of the West Riding and a portionof the northern division of the county received episcopal privileges apart fromYork, the ancient Bishopric of Ripon, dormant from pre-Reformation times, beingrevived for the pmpose. In its resuscitated form the diocese of Ripon had somethree hundred livings and a population of about eight hundred thousand. Bythe time the Queen attained her Jubilee, this jDopulation had doubled, and thenumber of livings had gone up to about five hundred. Dr. Walsham How, the Bishop Suffragan of Bedford, was the first bishopof the new see. Soon after his appointment, All Saints, the parish church ofWakefield, was made the cathedral for the diocese; and here, on June 25, 1888,the bishop was installed by the Archbishop of York. W. S. THE EXTEUIOR, FROM THE SOUTH-WEST. BANGOR.
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