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Title: Ely Cathedral

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: March 28, 2007 [EBook #20924]

Language: English

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ELY CATHEDRAL

[Illustration]

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

ELY. HILLS & SON
LONDON. SIMPKIN & CO. & ALL BOOKSELLERS

[Illustration: THE PRIOR'S DOORWAY]

THOS. KELL, LITH. 40, KING STREET
COVENT GARDEN, LONDON

[Illustration: Ely: Hills & Son

Thos. Kell Sculpt. London

ELY CATHEDRAL--THE OCTAGON.]

[Illustration: +Ely Cathedral.+

GROUND PLAN OF THE CHOIR.]

+Ground Plan of the Choir of Ely Cathedral.+

The first three bays are in the Decorated style, about the same date
as the Octagon (1337-1361). The Norman bays which they replaced were
injured by the fall of the central Tower in 1322. The six eastern bays
(the Presbytery) are in the Early English Style, and were built by
Bishop Northwold (1235-1252).

Having entered the South aisle of the Choir by the iron gate marked 1
on the plan, and passed, on the right, the monuments of Bishop Allen,
and the Stewards, we come to 2. Bishop de Luda's monument (1298)
restored on the north side by Dean Peacock. 3. Bishop Barnet's tomb
(1373). 4. Tomb of John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, and his two wives
(1470). 5. Tomb of Bishop Hotham (1337) who left money for the
rebuilding of the three Decorated bays of the Choir. 6. On the south
side of the aisle is the monument erected in 1879 to Canon Selwyn. 7.
Bishop West's Chapel, built about 1534, containing the graves of
Bishops West, Keene, and Sparke, and on the south side the remains of
seven benefactors of the monastery removed from the Conventual Church
in 1154; and built in the north wall is the tomb of Ca