146° High Altar in Salisbury Cathedral. 
and ¢ @, above which are the four compartments in the roof con- 
taining the twelve apostles in ¢iree of them—as though illustrating 
the text, “In the regeneration when the Son of Man shall sit in 
the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit on twelve thrones, judging 
the twelve tribes of Israel””—and the figure of Our Blessed Lord 
in glory in the fourth and easternmost of them ;—(ii) that, at the 
first, not only the lesser transepts and their aisles, but all the spaces 
between the eastern end of the presbytery and the entrance to the 
Lady Chapel were open and accessible to the laity, so that there was 
nothing incongruous in the comparatively secular character of the 
subjects of the roof-paintings above, inasmuch as to them they might 
teach the lesson of doing all things, even the ordinary duties of life, 
to the glory of God ;—(iv) that when, in consequence of the dangerous 
state of the building it was deemed absolutely necessary to adopt 
such plans as completely shut out the lesser transepts, and confined 
the altar within so contracted a space as probably to prevent the full 
carrying out of the ritual prescribed in the consuetudinary, then the 
space extending eastward to the Lady Chapel was added to, we 
may perhaps say substituted for, the original presbytery, and the 
altar placed within a few feet of the east end of it—a spot where 
it remained probably for some four hundred years, and at which it 
has now been re-placed by the distinguished architect, to whose care 
the restoration of our Cathedral has been so wisely and happily 
confided. 
W. H. Jonzs. 
The Vicarage, Bradford-on-Avon, 
June, 1877. 
