History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, Vol. 3 of 4

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Excerpt from History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, Vol. 3 of 4: Illustrated With a Series of Highly-Finished Engravings, Exhibiting General and Particular Views, Ground Plans, And All the Architectural Features and Ornaments in the Various Styles of Building in Our Ecclesiastical Edifices In the time of this prelate, remarks this facetious writer, the cathea of Lichdcld was in the vertical height thereof. Being (though not augmented in the essentials) beautitled in the ornamentals thereof. Indeed the west from is a state fabrick, adorned with exqulsite imagerie, which I suspect our age is so far irou being able to imitate the workmanship. That it understandeth not the history thereof. But also, it is now in a pitiful use, indeed. Almost beaten down to the ground in our civil dimensions. Some of the statues were repaired or replaced by the ever-memorable bishop Racket. Time, however, has again been no less destluctive than the hammersot' fanatics, andin inoseversl were removedby orderoi the dean and chapter. In the centre, at the top of this west front, stands the statue of Charles ll. Who contributed timber. Ac. Towards repairing the edifice, it is the work of air William Wilson, origi. Nally astone-mason at Button Cold¿eld. This statue, it is presumed, occupies the situation of an ancient one of Adam or Christ, as both sides of the towers were adorned with ngures ol' the patriarchs. Exactly over the top of the beautiful porch is a dgure of a bishop, supposed tobe 8t. Chad. Within this porch stood Noses, Aaron, the Evangelism, with the gospels in their hands, the Virgin and child, he. Which were formerly richly painted and gilded. At the top of the central pillar is a tigure between two cherubs, with open arms, but Stukeley, the acute Pettnant, Mr. Shaw, and otheu. Have given discordant opinions whether it was designed for God the Father or Son, and it is now too much mutilated to determine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.