Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle

of the cathedral of Carlisle

y, which was to have in connection with it a college of secular canons. Walter did not, however, live to see the building finished, and Henry I. took it upon himself to complete the good work. It is said that his w

n the prior claimed some tithes on land in the forest of Inglewood, but it was decided that the grant did not originally cover the tithes in dispute. "The ceremony of investiture with a horn is very ancient, and was in use before there were any written charters. We read of Ulf, a Danish prince, who gav

ks, cloaks, and hoods being of that colour. A further difference between them and other monks was that they let their beards grow and covered their heads with caps. A

ter that on which the castle stood. This situation was very advantageous owing to the presence of water near the surface, its frontage to the city wall, and proximity to the river. A narrow piece of ground of ab

t part of the site, the west end being about 100 feet from the boundary; and was

ur orders. The western wall was more than 7 feet in thickness, and had

nner, and a small apsidal chapel projected from the eastern face of each. The archway of the south transept apse is now the entrance to St. Catherine's Chapel

an be judged from traces of the original roof, still perceptible in the west wall of the present choir. In accordance with

the lower parts of the piers remain. To allow for the extension of the ritua

emented by stones from the Roman wall. Stucco was applied to the exterior, red lines marking the joints. There i

of moderate size, consisting of a nave, with north and south aisle

choir, and a new one was projected on a much larger scale. Its length was to be equal to the nave, while in height and

d northward of the former. One consequence of this alteration is seen by comparing the entrance to each aisle. That of the south choir aisle is the original Norman arch, while the

regard to the roof of the nave, but not with the choir roof; and the central line of the choir does not coincide with that of the nave; for, though the south wall of the choir is in a line with the south wall of

fire, the most disastrous the cathedral has ever experienced, destroyed everything except the outer walls of the aisles, the g

followed by Bishops Kirkby, Welton, and Appleby. It was arranged to rebuild the choir on a still larger scale, a bay being added, and the east end rebuilt from the foundation. The general plan of the earlier work of the

added. The great arches, and the groin ribs of the aisle ceilings were underset with new pillars; so th

of the east window and the roof. The carving, hitherto unfinished, was now completed; but, as the style had developed in the mean-time, we once more find examples of decidedly early work with much later work both above and b

e, both for the interior and the exterior, giving in

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n in Lyson's "M

e east window was

efforts appear to have been made to bring the nave into correspondence with the extended choir, and the end of the

in the aisles thirteenth-century work

w tracery, and the gradual steps taken tow

s perfection can be s

ter period, is exhibited in the corbels of the roof of the choir and the capitals of the piers. The latter afford the most complete representation

ably because the foundations would not permit one to be erected proportioned to the size of the choir. It

to this period (1401-19). The elaborate tabernacle work by Prior Haithwaite (1

e stalls. The remains of some screens he added to t

white, diapered with red roses nearly 12 inches in diameter, and with the letters I.H.C. and J

nce screen on the north side of the choir, near the pulpit. It bears his ini

ter founded by Henry VIII. The revenue was at that time estimated at ￡481 per annum. Five years later, June 1

cord left by some officers who visited the English cathedrals in 1634. Carlisle they curt

ations. It is very probable that the Norman church was partly built of stones taken from the Roman wall; and it is strange

gation being opposed to him, he was guarded while preaching, by certain soldiers and friends who had "heard him gladly." At length the

bes the scene,

e we came t

he steeple-house, so that the people trembled and shook, and they thought the steeple-house shook: and some of them feared it would fall down on their heads. The magistrates' wives were in a rage and strove mightily to be at me: but the soldiers and friendly people stood thick about me. At length the rude people of the city rose, and came with staves and stones into the steeple-house crying, 'Down with these round-headed rogues'; and they threw s

for me to come before them. After a large examination they committed me to prison as a blasph

g as "black but comely, still bearing the

g by the Jacobite prisoners who were lodged i

g the cathedral, but they for the most part consisted of hiding the beautiful ch

ruined and destroyed they in the year 1764 contracted for a stucco groined ceiling, and for cleaning and whitening the whole church. And finding the new lead much torn and broken by wind for want of

elaborate tracery work. When the cathedral was "repaired and beautified" as just descr

Ewan Christian, the architect of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, undertook the w

tful Early English choir with its magnificent east window wi

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