CITY OF DURHAM 



between the central pair of buttresses on a 

 similar arch, is a wide and low recess opening to 

 the chapel under the window at the end of the 

 middle aisle. Small rectangular loops in the 

 outer walls of the chamber and recess command 

 a magnificent view across the Wear. On the 

 outer face of the west wall of the chapel, within 

 the chamber, are the remains of a bold pattern 

 of intersecting straight lines of roll-moulding 

 which, as part of the original design, is carried 

 across the west wall below the windows, with 

 two stages of arcading below it, the upper inter- 

 laced and the lower single, with solid spandrels. 



In the floor of the Galilee are several grave 

 slabs, three of which have indents for brasses. 

 The grave of John Brimley (d. 1576), master of 

 choristers and organist, is in the middle aisle ; 

 there is a good armorial slab to Mrs. Dorothy 

 Grey (d. 1662). The two outermost aisles have 

 lean-to roofs, and the three inner ones flat open 

 timber roofs of seven bays, with moulded 

 principals on stone corbels, all of Langley's 

 time. Externally, the roofs are leaded, behind 

 embattled parapets.^^ 



Until 1822 the north aisle was walled off and 

 used as a repository for wills, and the south aisle 

 was stalled and benched and used as a Consistory 

 Court until 1796, ^vhen the court was transferred 

 to the north transept." 



There is a ring of eight BELLS in the central 

 tower, five of which are by Christopher Hodson, 

 1693 ; the treble is by Pack and Chapman, 1780, 

 the third by the same firm (then Chapman), 1 78 1 , 

 and the fourth a recasting by Mears and Stain- 

 bank in 1896 of one of Hodson's bells. With 

 the exception of the treble these bells are in 

 direct descent from the ' seven great bells in the 

 steeples ' mentioned in 1553, four of which were 

 in the north-west tower, or Galilee steeple, and 

 three in the central tower." During the time 

 of Dean Whittingham (1563-79) three of the 

 bells in the Galilee steeple were removed to the 

 central tower,^^ and the remaining one at a 

 later date. Of these four, the great, or Galilee, 

 bell is recorded to have been given by Prior 

 Fossor, two others were known respectively as 

 St. Bede's bell and St. Oswald's bell, while the 

 smallest is described as having been long and 

 narrow skirted.i^ The whole of the bells seem 



46 ft. below the floor of the chapel. Trans. Archit. 

 and Arch. Soc. Durh. and Northd. v, 27. 



12 Except on the south outer wall, where the parapet 

 is straight. 



1^ Boyle, Guide to Durh. 274. The Latin motto in 

 the Galilee over the great doorway has reference to the 

 Consistory Court. 



1* ' In the lanthorn, called the new work, was hang- 

 ing there three fine bells.' Rites of Durh. (Surtees 

 Soc.), 22. 



** By the intervention of Dr. Spark. 



1* It appears to have been of 13th-century date. 



to have been recast in 1632, and three of them 

 again in 1639 (and 1682), 1664, and 1665 respec- 

 tively. The number was increased to eight by 

 the addition of a new treble when Christopher 

 Hodson recast the whole ring in 1693." 



Bishop Cosin presented a fine set of silver-gilt 

 PLATE to the cathedral, but of this only one 

 piece, described by him as ' a fair, large, scallopt 

 paten, with a foot and cover of fair embossed 

 work,'** now remains. The rest was recast in 

 1767, and in its present form consists of two 

 cups, two patens, two flagons, two large patens, 

 two loving cups, and one alms dish. All these 

 pieces are engraved with Cosin's arms, and bear 

 the mark of Franijois Butty and Nicholas Dumee, 

 with the London date-letter 1766-7 ; they are 

 of silver gilt enriched with flower sprays and 

 gadroons. There are also two spoons, undated, 

 but with the mark of Paul Callard, of London ;*' 

 a silver-gilt 17th-century chalice,bearingGerman 

 or Dutch assay marks, given by Archdeacon 

 Watkins in 1905 -f" and a silver-gilt paten made 

 in 1912-13, presented in memory of Canon 

 Body (d. 191 1). For use in the Durham Light 

 Infantry Memorial Chapel there are a chalice and 

 paten of 1903-4, and a flagon of 1904-5, London 

 make. The silver-gilt candlesticks on the high 

 altar are recastings in 1767 of those given by 

 Cosin. 



THE EXTERNAL ELEVATIONS of the 

 main fabric have been altered chiefly by the 

 insertion of tracery windows in the quire aisles 

 and transepts and by the paring of the wall 

 surfaces already mentioned,-* but the general 

 outlines of the first design have been preserved. 

 Between the aisle windows and those of the 

 nave clearstory are flat pilaster buttresses, but 

 in the clearstory of the quire and transepts they 

 occur only in front of the major piers. There 



1' The ancient dedications were recorded in the 

 inscriptions. Those remaining are (2) St. Margaret, 

 (S) St. Michael, (6) Bede, (7) St. Oswald, (8) St. Cuth- 

 bert. The new fourth preserves the dedication to St. 

 Benedict. Chapman's bells have only the names of the 

 founder and the dean. The tenor weighs approximately 

 30 cvvt. 



18 It is a handsome piece with gadrooned edge, 

 diameter loj in., height to top of cover 12 in. It was 

 given in 1667, but bears no marks or inscription: 

 Cosin's Corr. (Surtees Soc), ii, xiv. 



1* Entered as goldsmith in 1 75 1. 



2" The chalice is 9| in. high, and has a six-lobcd 

 foot. The bowl rests on a calix of repousse work, with 

 cherubs' heads, swags, and flowers. On the foot are 

 representations of the Crucifi.xion, with the\'irgin and 

 St. John, cherubim, and two unidentified coats-of-arms, 

 one surmounted by a mitre. The chaUce was shown at 

 the Exhibition of 1862 at South Kensington, and was 

 presented to .\rchdeacon Watkins by the owner. It 

 bears no date-letter or maker's mark. 



21 The repairs of the north front seem to have been 

 begun in 1775. Raine, Durh. Cath. I18. 



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