WELLS CATHEDRAL. 69 
from any thing I can see, (though it has at first 
glance on the inside a Norman look about it,) 
is far more likely, in my opinion, to have been built 
at the close of the early English period, than before 
its beginning. With regard to the north porch, 
by and bye. Be kind enough to look at the plan. 
You will seethe church at present is a Cross. North 
and south towers at the west end,—Cloisters at the 
south side, running three sides ofa square ;—Porch 
onthe north, — Chapter house on the north.— Then at 
the east end of the choir, a second transept, formed 
with chapelries on the north and south side. This 
second transept, I believe, is peculiar to English 
churches, and was probably adopted because it gave 
room for two more chapels in the path of procession. 
In continental churches its place is supplied by 
polygonal or circular chapelries, at the north-east 
or south-east corners and down the sides. After 
these transepts and their chantries, comes the 
“Lady Chapel,” with a polygonal apse at the 
extreme east end. 
Now, if we except the present cloisters, the 
chapter-house, with its staircase, all the towers 
above the line of the roofs near which they stand, 
with the whole of the east end, as far as two bays 
in the walls of the side aisle, (three arches 
in the choir,)—the remainder of the cathedral is of 
the early English period; and I honestly confess I 
can trace no tokens that any portions of it, (except 
what is noticed below,) were built at dates differing 
