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CHAPTER XIX. 



Clandestine Architectural Studies A Visit to the Marquis of Westminster's 

 Stud Stable Matters. 



Monday, June Bd. 



"PARLY in the morning we visited the old church of St. John's, 

 *" and afterwards several curious places, relics of Romans, 

 Saxons, and Normans, in the suburbs after all, nothing so in- 

 teresting to me as the commonest relics of Englishmen but two 

 or three centuries old. As we returned through the town at 

 seven, the early risers seemed to be just getting up. Passing the 

 cathedral as the bell tolled for morning prayer, we turned in. 

 There are services every day at 7, 11, and 3 o'clock. The 

 service was performed in the Lady Chapel, which we did not 

 enter. The attendance must have been rather meagre, as we 

 saw no one going to it but two ladies with an old man-servant. 

 We remained some time hunting on tip-toe for traces of the 

 "Norman transition" in the architecture, and found we had had 

 already practice enough to readily detect it in various parts. 

 Stealing softly into the choir, from which the Lady Chapel opens, 

 we examined the bishop's throne. It is adorned with many 

 figures of saints and angels, kings and queens, and having been 

 once broken to pieces, in the repairs upon it the old heads were 

 generally put on young shoulders, and vice versa, producing in 



