. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . er and of unusual form, as it is without a the nave there is a slab, on which is sculptured in low relief a man on hisknees, with a gigantic lion in a grove of trees in the foreground. Traditionsays that it covers the body of an Irish prince, who died at Ripon on his retm-nfrom Palestine, whence he brought a lion that followed him with all the docilityof a spaniel. It may have been the custom for the chapter tenants to pay theirrents on this stone, as it was in York Minster on Haxbys tomb. Then
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . er and of unusual form, as it is without a the nave there is a slab, on which is sculptured in low relief a man on hisknees, with a gigantic lion in a grove of trees in the foreground. Traditionsays that it covers the body of an Irish prince, who died at Ripon on his retm-nfrom Palestine, whence he brought a lion that followed him with all the docilityof a spaniel. It may have been the custom for the chapter tenants to pay theirrents on this stone, as it was in York Minster on Haxbys tomb. Then thereis a bust of the last Wakeman, and first Mayor of Ripon, and a statue ofJames I. The celebrated bone-house is no more; it required a pit twelve feet deepto bury its contents in the churchyard. But though the dead bones are gone,there is plenty of life in the cathedi-al services, which are not a little assistedby the tones of a new organ of fine character, whose pneumatic action has toreach the length of 150 feet, and which possesses 44 sounding stops and 2,646pipes. H. D. CUST-NUNN. THE BXTKUIOK, FKOM lUK BOUTH-WiSST. CHICHESTER.
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