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whole this city is rather venerable and fin- 

 gular than elegant. 



The Cathedral is a large, irregular and 

 heavy pile of building, at prefent become 

 ragged from the decay of it's mouldering 

 itone. It was built on the file of a nunnery 

 founded about the year 660, by Wolferus 

 King of Mercia, in favor of his daughter 

 Werburgh, afterwards fainted, to whom 

 it is dedicated. The chief part of the pre- 

 fent building was erected in the reigns of 

 Henry VI. VII. VIII. but principally in 

 thofe of the two laft. The revenues of the 

 Abbey at the diffolution were according to 

 Dugdale valued at 1003. 5^. nd. and 

 according to Speed at 1073. ijs. yd. 



The choir is very neat, and the gothic 

 . tabernacle- work over the flails is carved in 

 a light and elegant manner. About the 

 walls in the chancel are difperfed the mo- 

 numents of feveral bimops and churchmen, 

 but none of them of any magnificence. 



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