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bury Cathedral, are an example. Canterbury Cathedral suftered 
very much during the Great Rebellion. It was used as a stable 
for cavalry horses, and the whole of the choir fittings were 
practically destroyed. Then afterwards it was fitted up in very 
beautiful style, partly I think at the expense of Queen Mary the 
Second, and partly at the expense of Archbishop Tenison, who in 
particular presented the Archbishop’s throne, which certainly was 
the work of Gibbons, because the Chapter hold his receipt for the 
modest sum of £10, which was his remuneration for the work. 
But the barbarous task of a Bishop of this Diocese (Bishop Percy), 
who was Dean of Canterbury, first destroyed the sides of the choir 
and the superb organ case (of which a print may be seen in Dart). 
Then in my recollection the Archbishop's throne was pulled down, 
‘to make way for a piece of modern stone rubbish supplied by a 
carver from Belguim, who was supposed to do the thing cheap; and 
then lately Sir Gilbert Scott proposed to take away the choir stalls, 
the last remains of the good work, and to substitute his “modern 
antiquity.” And besides all this, in the choir of Canterbury 
Cathedral, which was built by the Norman William of Sens, the 
Corinthian features were not, after all, such an anachronism. 
However, I don’t wish to trouble you with going over the ground 
I have already travelled. I only want to make my meaning clear, 
and take leave to repeat that I would comprise in the term ‘What 
is good!” everything that is the expression and the work of an 
individual artist. My friend Dr. ’Anson has been speaking in 
parables. (Laughter.) I could not quite follow his meaning. 
But there is one building in Whitehaven which is certainly 
not a beautiful building—in fact, it is very bad, and without any 
feature of merit. That is the Old Church of St. Nicholas. It is 
a hopeless building: really, you can do nothing with it at all. 
(Laughter.) But I can illustrate my position by something in that 
church. Notwithstanding it is, as I say, a hopeless building, I 
think it does contain something which, in my opinion, is good, and 
that is, the carving on the old Lowther pew. That is not a great 
work, nor a fine work ; but it is a very interesting work, because it 
is the expression of the north country carvers who lived at that 
