The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . refamiliar square, and characteristically English, eastern termin-ation. ? The apsidal chapels on the east side of each arm ofthe transept had disappeared to make room for others of adifferent shape and size. The other chapels at the eastremained the same in number ; but towards the close of thethirteenth century the lady-chapel had been lengthened,and the aisles of the choir, being continued eastward, endedin small chapels to the north and south of the central other
The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . refamiliar square, and characteristically English, eastern termin-ation. ? The apsidal chapels on the east side of each arm ofthe transept had disappeared to make room for others of adifferent shape and size. The other chapels at the eastremained the same in number ; but towards the close of thethirteenth century the lady-chapel had been lengthened,and the aisles of the choir, being continued eastward, endedin small chapels to the north and south of the central other changes were those caused by the addition ofchapels off the south and north aisles of the nave. Theaddition of the south and north porches, and the sacristynext to the south arm of the transept, were the only otheralterations, if we except the addition of buttresses, whichhad been made in the original arrangement up to thebeginning of the fourteenth century. Though the quest may not be followed here, it would beinteresting to try and trace the cause of this desire to add chapels See Willis, p. x. : 1 luin ^s Ciilliidral tlnmhis. THE CATHEDRAL FROM THE SOUTH-EAST, ABOUT 1836. 26 CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL. to mediaeval buildings. It had during the thirteenth centuryalready become a clear indication of that gradual movementaffecting the arrangement of churches which originated inthe introduction of new doctrinal ideas. The particular set ofideas which caused such additions as these had now becomea part of the common property of popular thought, imagination,and reverent superstition. The earlier designers and buildershad not been taught to consider these features essential to thecomplete equipment of a church planned in accordance withprimitive usages ; they were a simple example of the influencewhich doctrine exercised upon the history of art and the scopeof archaeological inquiry. The course of history that has been followed has ledus through the maze of some
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