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clerestory ; but as it rests upon the roof the architectural 

 harmony is spoilt by its inappropriate and discordant colouring, 

 said to be the work of Cottingham. The celebrated metal work 

 screen, well known to visitors to the first Exhibition in 1851, 

 toned down by age, has not lost in beauty. Before passing 

 through it, the curious stone gratings of the lantern tower, 

 upon which an inner casing of the side walls rest, was the 

 subject of much speculation, and the venerable verger in charge 

 of the party discoursed largely upon Cottingham's mechanical 

 ingenuity, whereby in 1843 the tower was underpinned, whilst 

 the piers, then in a dangerous state, were being rebuilt from 

 foundation to capital. The Norman choir and Early Decorated 

 clerestory, grotesque stall carvings, and reproduction in tiles of 

 the murder of King Ethelbert by the Saxon Offa, having been 

 sufficiently admired, the party passed through the south choir 

 aisle and under the fine organ to a building now used as a 

 vestry, in which a glass case contains various relics, rings, patens, 

 crosiers, MSS., &c. ; and then examined the far-famed " Mappa 

 Mundi," preserved in a suitable oaken case and glazed, 

 considered to be one of the oldest maps in the world — a curious 

 and grotesque representation of the then known world, a plain 

 surrounded with its ocean, whereon are represented cities and 

 places in unusual juxtaposition, man and beast and things 

 creeping innumerable, after the fashion of the times, and 

 ascribed as the work of one De Haldingham, 1300. It only 

 remained to visit the crypt, called Golgotha, end of 1 1th century, 

 under the Lady Chapel, and the south transept ; on the east wall 

 of which is some Norman work, supposed to be the earliest 

 Norman work in the Church. A fire-place of much later date 

 is in the west wall, and appears to be about the date of the 

 window in that wall, i.e., Bishop Trevenant's time, 1400. 



The fine organ, the especial care of Sir Fredk. Ouseley, the 

 Precentor, having warned the members of the commencement of 

 afternoon service, a few of them remained, whilst the rest 



