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There is unfortunately no record of the architectural character 
of the church demolished in 1720 to make way for Dr. Todd’s 
Georgian fabric; but Bishop Nicolson, in his accounts of the 
condition of the church and monuments sixteen years before its 
demolition, in describing the monuments and church fittings, 
makes several allusions to parts of the church, which, being collated 
and fitted on to the grand old tower happily left to us, we get a 
rough idea of the plan of the church ;—which I venture to describe 
as—first, a nave the width of the tower, and open to it; secondly, 
a south aisle of lofty dimensions, terminated eastward by a choir 
dedicated to St. Andrew; thirdly, the nave was terminated east- 
ward by a choir dedicated to St. Mary, called also the Bishop’s 
choir: this was the ritual choir or chancel, containing the altar. 
Dr. Todd’s account of the old church is, that it was rude and 
unequal, as having been built at different times; that it opened 
into two, and had at the east end two altars, dedicated to St. Mary 
and St. Andrew. From Bishop Nicolson’s references, it is not 
clear that a north aisle existed; but from some of his allusions, 
and from ‘the words, “repairing the low leads,” occurring in the 
churchwardens’ accounts, I think there was a north aisle having a 
low lean-to roof covered with lead.. Of course, between the nave 
and aisles there would be the usual arcades of pillars and arches. 
From the Bishop’s account we learn that there was a door to 
the south aisle, and a south door to St. Andrew’s choir. We also 
know there was a great north door, because he refers to it in 
_ describing the position of the giant’s grave. 
St. Andrew’s choir was devoted to the reception of sepulchral 
monuments, principally—perhaps exclusively—those of the Huttons 
of Hutton Hall, Penrith, who claimed to be proprietors of that 
choir. 
I cannot believe there was any practical reason for demolishing 
the old church beyond the fashion of the period—to condemn all 
old Gothic work as worthless, and the rage for building imitations 
—many of them bad imitations—of Wren’s Italian churches ; and 
T feel sure that if Dr. Todd and Bishop Nicolson had possessed 
any love or reverence for ancient Gothic architecture, they would 
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