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Title: Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Winkles, Benjamin Garland, Robert, Architect Moule, Thomas, 1784-1851
Subjects: Cathedrals Cathedrals
Publisher: London : E. Wilson and C. Tilt
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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seven prebendaries, about the year 1604. With regard to the Minster or Cathedral, as it now appears,very little is known from authentic documents, as to when or bywhom the several portions of it were erected. An historical anddescriptive account of it was communicated to the Society of Anti-quaries by Robert Darley Waddilove, D.D., the late dean, in 1810,and printed by them in their Archaaologia, vol. xvii., p. 128—137.In this account, the architectural chronology of this church isdiscussed at considerable length. The whole of the west front,including its towers, the central tower, and the transept, with partof the choir and aisles, are ascribed to the time of Stephen, andare thought to have been raised by Thurston, archbishop of York.In 1317, the church and town of Ripon were burnt by the Scots;and the re-instalment of the former is said to have been entirelyowing to the exertions of Archbishop Me)ton. He is said to haveextended the church eastward to twice its former length. This
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= S Si ©w UPON CATHEDRA 1 I l!» aboil! 1331. The same author sii;>;>osi*s till windov the oast end to be the work of the latter part of the fourteenthcentury. I.vi BRIOR. Although this Cathedral church 18 not one of the first ui;iLrni- tude and Bplendour, \ct it ua b Btatel) structure, and greatly supe-rior in all respects to many other English cathedrals, and to all theWelsh ones. Those of Carlisle) Chester, Oxford* Bristol) B Chester, and Chichester, are all inferior to Ripon, which rival.- even those of Hereford, Exeter, and Worcester. As far as thewest front alone is concerned, it is superior to most, and vies withall the rest, except York, Lincoln, Peterborough, and Wells, withwhich, in this respect, no others can come into competition. Theplan is the ordinary one, of a gable between two square towers, hutthe height and breadth of the west wall of the nave, are unusuallygreat, and the towers are in a continued line with it, and composea part of this very uniform and elega

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