The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . e tombs of Bishop Day and BishopChristopherson or Curteys. The Lady-Chapel, as its walls and vaulting clearly show,was once completely decorated with designs in colour. Thewindows now are the only parts that indicate an attempt torenew this portion of its earlier condition. The new reredos isof alabaster, and was designed by Messrs Carpenter & North Choir Aisle contains some monuments whichare referred to separately. The now unused chapel at itseastern end was de
The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . e tombs of Bishop Day and BishopChristopherson or Curteys. The Lady-Chapel, as its walls and vaulting clearly show,was once completely decorated with designs in colour. Thewindows now are the only parts that indicate an attempt torenew this portion of its earlier condition. The new reredos isof alabaster, and was designed by Messrs Carpenter & North Choir Aisle contains some monuments whichare referred to separately. The now unused chapel at itseastern end was dedicated to S. Catharine. The Library is approached through a doorway in thisaisle. There is a chamber above in which was the libraryof pre-Reformation days. The present library formed the chapelof S. John the Baptist and S. Edmund the King (13) until itbecame the chancel of the parish church of S. Peter the Great,the north transept being used as its nave. Part of the vaultingin it is unlike any other in the building, having the chevronor zigzag ornament cut on the side of the mouldings of theribs (see page 98).. THE LAUV-CHAPEI., 96 CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL. The library collection contains many relics of various kinds :among them are Oslacs grant of land to the church at Selsea, 780; a manuscript of the twelfth century; Cranmers copyof the Consultatio of Herman of Cologne; an old Sarummissal; the sealed book of Charles H. ; fragments of eccle-siastical vessels ; and a leaden Absolution of Bishop Godfreydating from the eleventh century. The North Transept has on its west side two of theold twelfth-century round-arched windows, and opposite arethe two large round-arched openings into the library and thechamber above it. The vaulting of this transept is not thesame in detail as that to the south of the choir, and is ratherearlier in the type of its mouldings. Close by the southspringing of the arch leading to the library is one of the fewpieces of figure-carving in the church. It
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