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THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF
ROCHESTER
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF1
 
A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRICAND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THEEPISCOPAL SEE
BY G. H. PALMER, B.A.LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1897
CHISWICK PRESS:—CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
GENERAL PREFACE.
This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedrals with accurateand well illustrated guide books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to the student of archæology and history,and yet not too technical in language for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist.To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each case would be difficult and tedious in thisplace. But amongst the general sources of information which have been almost invariably found usefulare:firstly, the great county histories, the value of which, especially in questions of genealogy and localrecords, is generally recognized; secondly, the numerous papers by experts which appear from time to time inthe transactions of the antiquarian and archæological societies; thirdly, the important documents madeaccessible in the series issued by the Master of the Rolls; fourthly, the well-known works of Britton and Willison the English Cathedrals; and, lastly, the very excellent series of Handbooks to the Cathedrals, originated bythe late Mr. John Murray, to which the reader may in most cases be referred for fuller detail, especially inreference to the histories of the respective sees.Gleeson White.Edward F. Strange.
 Editors of the Series.
A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE EPISCOPAL SEE2
 
PREFACE.
Within the limits of a short preface it is impossible to enumerate all the sources of information, printed and inmanuscript, to which reference has been made in the writing of this little work on the Cathedral church of theauthor’s native city. He must especially mention the extent to which he has consulted the works of the Rev. G.M. Livett, Mr. W. H. St. John Hope, and Canon Scott Robertson among living authorities, while in the“Collections” made by Mr. Brenchley Rye, preserved in the British Museum (where Mr. Rye was once akeeper), notes have been found of many matters that might otherwise have escaped notice.Most of the illustrations appear for the first time in this book. They are reproduced, by kind permission, frompen-drawings by Messrs. H. P. Clifford and R. J. Beale, and from photographs by Messrs. Horace Dan, J. L.Allen, F. G. M. Beaumont, and Messrs. Carl Norman and Co., of Tunbridge Wells.Thanks are also due to the Very Rev. the Dean, the Rev. E. J. Nash, Mr. George Payne, F.S.A., and Mr. S. S.Brister, for kindnesses and helpful suggestions, as also to the head-verger, Mr. Miles, who, having beenconnected with the fabric for more than half a century, has a personal knowledge of its history during thattime.G. H. P.
9th Jan., 1897.
CONTENTS.
PAGEChapter I.The History of the Cathedral3Chapter II.The Exterior38Tower and Bells39West Front43West Doorway46Nave and Main Transept50Choir and Gundulfs Tower52Monastic Buildings55Bishops Palace57Enclosure and Gates59Chapter III.The Interior63Nave63Lady Chapel70Main Transept70Font, Pulpit, and Stalls75Monuments and Slabs76Stained Glass78North Choir Aisle81Organ81Choir Screen83Choir and Choir Transept83 The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Cathedral Church Of Rochester, by G. H. Palmer, B.A.PREFACE.3

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