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Title: Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester
A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

Author: G. H. Palmer

Release Date: April 17, 2008 [EBook #25084]

Language: English

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[Illustration: SOUTH TRANSEPT FROM THE SOUTH-EAST
(FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY J. L. ALLEN).]

THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF
ROCHESTER

A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC
AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
EPISCOPAL SEE

BY G. H. PALMER, B.A.

[Illustration]

LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1897

CHISWICK PRESS:--CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

GENERAL PREFACE.

This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the
great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide books
at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work
compiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to the
student of archaeology and history, and yet not too technical in language
for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist.

To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each case
would be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst the general
sources of information which have been almost invariably found useful
are:--firstly, the great county histories, the value of which,
especially in questions of genealogy and local records, is generally
recognized; secondly, the numerous papers by experts which appear from
time to time in the transactions of the antiquarian and archaeological
societies; thirdly, the important documents made accessible in the
series issued by the Master of the Rolls; fourthly, the well-known works