. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . s one of the most charming of architectural works. Leaving the east end we may pass westwards and watch the gradualdevelopment of the varied architectural features of the building. First, theside elevation of the Angel Choir, with its lovely windows, as perfect as the greateast window on a smaller scale, divided by tall gabled buttresses, where pedestalsand canopies await—let us hope not in vain—the army of statues which oncepeopled them. Then follows the deeply-recessed south porch, with its solemnscu
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . s one of the most charming of architectural works. Leaving the east end we may pass westwards and watch the gradualdevelopment of the varied architectural features of the building. First, theside elevation of the Angel Choir, with its lovely windows, as perfect as the greateast window on a smaller scale, divided by tall gabled buttresses, where pedestalsand canopies await—let us hope not in vain—the army of statues which oncepeopled them. Then follows the deeply-recessed south porch, with its solemnsculptures of the Doom—the seated Judge, the yawning tombs, the rising dead— LiVCOLN.] THE PORCH. 81 recallinf^ on a smaller scale the vast cavern-like portals of Rheims or either side of this marvellous porch tlie late but rich monumental chapelsof Bishop Russell, the tutor of tlie boy-king, Edward V., and Lord Chancellorto his usurping uncle, on the right, and of Bishop Longland— longa terramensura ejus, as his punning motto has it—the persecutor of Sacramentaries. THE CATHEDRAL TOWERS TROM THE SOUTH-WEST. and ghostly counsellor to Henry VIII., on the left, are dwarfed into insignificance— mere trinkets for the watch-chain —by the vast proportions of the buildingto which they are attached. The high narrow eastern transept, the work ofthe sainted Hugh of Avalon, with its tall lancets and apsidal cliapels, is suc-ceeded after a short interval by the far more sturdy and less elegant westerntransept, with its broader windows and ponderous buttresses, at the intersectionof which with the body of the church rises the glorious central tower, the
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