Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . pel; but others assert that thealtar, tomb, and effigy under Prince*Arthurs chantry, belong toBishop GifFard. Green states that the nave of this Cathedral, from the westernarches, already mentioned, to the central tower, was the work ofBishop Blois about 1224. During the prelacy of Bishop Wakefield,who was consecrated in 1375, and died in 1394-5, some alterationswere made at the west end, and in the nave, by opening the largecentral window in the former and making other windows, andforming so
Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . pel; but others assert that thealtar, tomb, and effigy under Prince*Arthurs chantry, belong toBishop GifFard. Green states that the nave of this Cathedral, from the westernarches, already mentioned, to the central tower, was the work ofBishop Blois about 1224. During the prelacy of Bishop Wakefield,who was consecrated in 1375, and died in 1394-5, some alterationswere made at the west end, and in the nave, by opening the largecentral window in the former and making other windows, andforming some of the vaulting of the latter. The Worcester annalsstate that the great tower, which must mean the central towerat the intersection of the nave and choir, with the greater transept,fell in the year 1175. The present tower seems to have beenfinished in 1374, though not as it now appears, the parapet andpinnacles having been altered in modern times; all that belongs tothe original design is exceedingly beautiful. In the will of BishopNicholas de Ely, sixty marks are bequeathed towards re-edifying. •2 uliiiu iii: CATHEDRA! the toweTi proving thai about 1267 it irai either entirely ruined in ;i \erv dangerOU Condition. About tWO years aftei the raultings of the choir and of the greater transept irere completed Other parts of the church are laid to hare been vaulted with?tone in the yean L327, L375, (J, whence if leemi thai duringthe fourteenth century the Cathedral underwent many important alterations and repairs. About 1208 King John made a pilgrimi to the shrine of St Wulstan, when lie i_rave B hundred mark- for the repairs of the cloister, but as the present cloister was not built before 1380, the ft inner repaired by the help of King Johnmust have been taken down to make room for it. It has been -aidthat the chapter-house was built about the same time with thecloister, but it is evident this cannot refer to the present cloister,but to the former, for the lower part of
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