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arms still remain conspicuous. That the south 
west tower was built perhaps partly with bishop 
Harewell’s money, but in bishop Bubwith’s time, 
is more than probable, from its corresponding 
stone for stone with bishop Bubwith’s,* except his 
statues, &c., and from the will, (which see in the 
appendix. ) 
The present cleisters stand very nearly on the 
site ofthe old ; the early English door-ways, which 
remain, prove they must have been exceedingly 
beautiful; the east side of the present cloister is 
said to have been built by bishop Bubwith; and 
to bishop Beckington, (bishop from A.n. 1443 to 
1464-5,) is given the west side. The greater portion 
ofthe work I conceive to be bishop Beckington’s; 
for though the entrance to the library has bishop 
Bubwith’s arms on the glass, there does not seem 
to be any sufficient difference in the building, to 
prove that bishop Bubwith finished the east side 
during his life time ; while the holly appears inter- 
mixed with Beckington’s shields, on the west side, 
as if bishop Beckington was building in memoriam. 
The south side might partly have been built 
* How these towers were originally finished is another ceurious ques- 
tion ; Iincline to the belief that they had spires, and whether they 
ever had pinnacles on them I cannotsay; if the present capping be origi- 
nalin the south tower, certainly they never had, but I doubt this. 
That in the original design of the towers, pinnacles were contem- 
plated I have myself no doubt ; such an elaborate combination of shafts 
bespeaks it, especially as there are pinnacles now standing on several 
portions of the ascent. 
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