. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . choir andtransepts, as we now see them, are the result of the former, nave of the secondeffort of this happy inspiration. Bangor cannot lay claim to many notable men. Kings did not jDcnsion theirState officers with Welsh preferment. Possibly the notoriety of l^ishop Hoadley(1716) may entitle him to a passing word. Appointed because of political con-siderations, he was travelling to his diocese; but when at Chester, anticipatinga reception the reverse of pleasant, he turned tail and never again attempte
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . choir andtransepts, as we now see them, are the result of the former, nave of the secondeffort of this happy inspiration. Bangor cannot lay claim to many notable men. Kings did not jDcnsion theirState officers with Welsh preferment. Possibly the notoriety of l^ishop Hoadley(1716) may entitle him to a passing word. Appointed because of political con-siderations, he was travelling to his diocese; but when at Chester, anticipatinga reception the reverse of pleasant, he turned tail and never again attempted to\isit Bangor through a seven years occupancy of the see. He it was Avho gaverise to the well-known Bangorian controversy. One word to the antiquarian who prefers what is really old to any amount of successful imitation. The south transept retains its three original buttresses; they are worth examination, and further valuable as corresponding with the work in the Lady Chapel of Chester Cathedral, whence it may be inferred that Edward I. di-ew his masons and chief designer. R. H. -^=-y&^^ THE CATHEDRAL, KKOM THE HIVER. ST. ASAPH.
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