Brief guide to London . ecture,was built by Bishop Gundulfinthe twelfth century. Thewestern front of the Cathedral was restored under theauspices of the Dean and Chapter and by public sub-scription, at a cost of /7,00a The Nave measures i<feet in length and 65 feet in width, and is 60 feet Choir is HO feet long, the main Transept 122 feet long. 29 RIPON CATHEDRAL. (214 miles from London.) The originalChurch was founded about the year 680 by St. Wilfrid,and an interesting Saxon Crypt still remaining was nodoubt a part of this Church. The main fabric of thepresent building was erecte
Brief guide to London . ecture,was built by Bishop Gundulfinthe twelfth century. Thewestern front of the Cathedral was restored under theauspices of the Dean and Chapter and by public sub-scription, at a cost of /7,00a The Nave measures i<feet in length and 65 feet in width, and is 60 feet Choir is HO feet long, the main Transept 122 feet long. 29 RIPON CATHEDRAL. (214 miles from London.) The originalChurch was founded about the year 680 by St. Wilfrid,and an interesting Saxon Crypt still remaining was nodoubt a part of this Church. The main fabric of thepresent building was erected about 1180 by ArchbishopRoger, of Pont lEveque, in the Norman Transition style,but the present Nave took the place of that then erectedearly in the sixteenth century; the present early Englishfacade was added about 1230. The whole building wasremodelled and restored by Sir Gilbert Scott in Nave measures 170 feet by 90 feet; Choir, 102 feetby 67 feet; Transept, 132 feet by 36 feet. The Towersare 120 feet From Notes on the CathedralsSwan Sonnenschein d> Co., Ltd. CATHEDRAL FROM THE NORTH-EAST. SALISBURY CATHEDRAL. (&2i miles from London). Agrand ediiice, founded in 1220. Contains the bones ofmany notabilities, and is very interesting. This Cathe-dral, dedicated to St. Mary, is generally admitted to be,architectural^, the finest in this country, and its beautifulspire, tapering into the sky no less than 400 feet, is quiteunique, even in face of the fact that it is 22§ inches out ofthe perpendicular. It was built in the fourteenth century,and is in early English style. The Nave measures 230feet long by 52 feet wide ; the Transept, 205 feet by 50feet; the Choir, 150 feet by 52 feet; total length, 470feet. The pillars are of Purbeck marble, and above thepiers rises a beautiful triforium and the triple lancetwindows of the clerestory. The cloisters are the largestin England. Id ST. ALBANS ABBEY. (20 miles from London.; Is a beautifulAbbey of ancient date. ST. PAU
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