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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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e work of the choir, he adds, was done at the expense ofBishop Strickland, before mentioned. The chapter-house andcloisters stood on the south side of the Cathedral, but weredestroyed during the civil wars. Part of the dormitory is yetremaining. The refectory is now used as the chapter-house. Itis not known when, or by whom, these buildings were erected.Though this church has been despoiled of its fair proportionsby the misapplied zeal of the puritans, it is still an imposingand interesting object on every approach to Carlisle, especiallyfrom the north-east, where it is seen crowning the whole city,rising far above the highest buildings which surround it, backed bya graceful line of hilly country; while the fore-ground of thepicture consists of rich meadow and river scenery, rendered stillmore picturesque by two handsome stone bridges of many arches. EXTERIOR. Beginning as usual with the west front, the visitor of CarlisleCathedral looks for it in vain; it is gone, and with it 92 feet
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; CAin isi.r < miii hi: of the nave, tli** remaining portion being onlj 18 feet in length:the opening made by the destruction of so much of the diand its aislei tras afterward clo ed up with ,-i plain trail, supportedby very ugly sloping buttresses. rVbal rematm of the i ide aisles, and clerestory) li very plain, and of the original work;the windows are of one 1 ii_r11t, round-headed, and those of theclerestory -topped up. The north wing of the transept bai b mallround-headed door in the irest trail of it, which if plain solidmasonry, and lias a large inserted window of three lights, and oflate decorated character; The north face of the transept ia much larger window inserted, and of still later date, of six lights)and tracery of perpendicular character? it occupies the whole*space, which is flanked by double buttresses at the angles, abovewhich to the west rises an octagonal turret; the wall is a straightline at top, and without a parapet. The east wall of this wingof the transept

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