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Title: Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon
A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric

Author: Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

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THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF RIPON

A Short History of the
Church & a Description
of Its Fabric

by

CECIL HALLETT, B.A.
Magdalen Coll., Oxford

With 53 Illustrations

[Illustration: RIPON CATHEDRAL FROM THE FOOTBRIDGE OVER THE SKELL.]

[Illustration]

London George Bell & Sons 1901

PREFACE.

The original authorities for the history (both constitutional and
architectural) of the Church of Ripon have been most ably edited for the
Surtees Society by the Rev. Canon J. T. Fowler, F.S.A., in his
_Memorials of Ripon_ and _The Ripon Chapter Acts_ (_Surtees Soc._, vols.
74, 78, 81, 64). These authorities range from the Saxon period to the
times following the Reformation, but in the Introductions to vol. 81,
and in the Rev. J. Ward's _Fasti Riponienses_, included in vol. 78, the
story is virtually continued to our own day; while the afores