Brief guide to London . eCathedrals of Manchester, Lincoln, Ely, and the Univer-sity of Cambridge, and, at small additional expense,Peterborough and Norwich. This route is of greatinterest to Americans travelling from Liverpool to Londonor the Continent via Harwich. 22 BRISTOL CATHEDRAL. (n8| miles from London.) AM mastery ol St Augustin Friars, dating 1142; Diocese (with a Bis lop) in 1542. Norman Architecture. CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. 6i| miles from Lond 1 he first State Church, granted by Ethelbert to Augustine, stood on this site: restored 942. The original Churchwas destroyed by fir
Brief guide to London . eCathedrals of Manchester, Lincoln, Ely, and the Univer-sity of Cambridge, and, at small additional expense,Peterborough and Norwich. This route is of greatinterest to Americans travelling from Liverpool to Londonor the Continent via Harwich. 22 BRISTOL CATHEDRAL. (n8| miles from London.) AM mastery ol St Augustin Friars, dating 1142; Diocese (with a Bis lop) in 1542. Norman Architecture. CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. 6i| miles from Lond 1 he first State Church, granted by Ethelbert to Augustine, stood on this site: restored 942. The original Churchwas destroyed by fire in the 3ear 1067, and other build-ings erected at later dates shared a similar fate. Thepresent Cathedral was in course of erection from 1100to 1400. The Nave is in the perpendicular style an Imeasures 178 feet lung and 71 feet wide The NorthTransept was the scene of the murder of Thoma^ a Decreetin 1170. Is the See of the Archbishop of Canterbury,whose London residence is Lambeth Palace ; he is Primateof all / t in x%Note* on the < athearalsSwan Sonnen&chein &?* ( o., Ltd. CANTERBURY I Aim D K a L,FROM THE SOU I H WEST. CARLISLE CATHEDRAL. (290^ miles from London.) Built1133! ° Norman type, containing very fine screen work. Sullcred greatly at the hands of Jacobites. The root ofthe Choir was decorated some forty year- ago by th7-The present dimensions are as lollows : Nave, 140 leetby 64. feet; Choir, 140 feet by 70 feet; Transept, 110 feetby 20 feet. CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL. (69 miles from London.) Built 1108. Contains beautiful monuments by llaxman; theedifice was sadly mauled by Parliamentarians in CHESTER CATHEDRAL. (179 miles from London.) A grandold building, dating 1075, bmlt for a Benedictine Monas-tery ; became the See of Chester 1541. DURHAM CATHEDRAL. (256 miles from London.) Of Normanand English styles, contains grand Norman columns andnave. Date 1071.
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