. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . t have been com-pleted, the nave built, and the west front cast into its present shape. The centraltower was rebuilt, as has been already stated, after its fall in 1237. The whole ofthese works are in the same general style, though with many variations in detail,viz., the Lancet-Gothic. To the same period belongs the chapter-house, which wasin progress during the episcopate of Bishop Hugh of Wells (1209—1235), brother ofBishop Jocelin of Wells, the rebuilder of that small but lovely cathedral. Thepopul
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . t have been com-pleted, the nave built, and the west front cast into its present shape. The centraltower was rebuilt, as has been already stated, after its fall in 1237. The whole ofthese works are in the same general style, though with many variations in detail,viz., the Lancet-Gothic. To the same period belongs the chapter-house, which wasin progress during the episcopate of Bishop Hugh of Wells (1209—1235), brother ofBishop Jocelin of Wells, the rebuilder of that small but lovely cathedral. Thepopular veneration for St. Hugh—the earlier bearer of the name—was the movingcause of the prolongation of the eastern limb, by the erection of the AngelChoir, to receive the shrine containing his body, for which work the offerings 84 CATHEDIIAL CHURCHES. [Lincoln. of the devotees flocking- to the hallowed spot supplied the necessary funds. Itwas begun about 1255, and completed in 1280, in which year the translationof the saints body took place, in the presence of Edward I. and his Queen. westernbuilding,part offashion. Eleanor, his brother Edmund, Earl ofLancaster, Archbishop Peckham, and animmense concourse of the leading eccle-siastics and nobles of the day. The addi-tion of the Angel Choir completed themain fabric of the cathedral. The cloisterswere added in the geometrical Decoratedstyle in 1296 and the immediately subse-quent years. On entering Lincoln Cathedral, while we are struck by the combination of grace and dignity in the design with richness in detail, and by the general impression of size and space, we cannot fail to feel the want of height. This defect is not so painfully apparent in the nave as in the choir and transept. In the latter, which is certainly the clumsiest portion of the the vault is absolutely crushing in its lowness, and cuts off the upper the northern circular window or Deans Eye in a most awkward In the choir the strangely unsymmetrical arrangem
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