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across the name of the architect of the new work, as the Nine 

 Altars was called, as a witness to a conveyance of some land near 

 Durham. The date of the deed was of the time when this chapel 

 was building'. I neglected, unfortunately, to make a reference 

 to the deed, trusting to my memory, and I have never since, 

 though I have often sought for it, been able to find it again, 

 or to remember the name of the architect. The next date we 

 have in connection with the building is that of Prior Hoton 

 (1289-1307), who repaired the roof of the nave. It is due 

 to Prior Fossor (1341-74) that the large window in the North 

 Transept was inserted, and which was restored by Prior 

 Castell (1494-1519). To Prior Fossor also is due the great 

 west window of the Nave. The Bishop's throne and his own 

 tomb were built by Thomas de Hatfield (1345-80). In 1380 

 the altar screen was erected, mainly at the expense of Lord 

 Neville of Paby, though Prior Berrington bore some part of 

 the cost. It was made in London, and brought to Newcastle 

 by sea. Hence the notion that it was made of Caen stone. 

 It is really Dorsetshire clunch. The cloisters were begun in 

 1368, and not finished until 1498 ; they have been much 

 mutilated. In 1404 the Dormitory was completed. In Car- 

 dinal Langley's time (1406-37) a great amount of work was 

 done in the Galilee ; windows had been inserted during the 1 3th 

 century in the north and south walls, and Langley, who found 

 the Galilee in a ruinous condition, put on a new roof, inserted 

 the windows in the west wall, and, possibly, added two 

 piers to the original Purbeck shafts of each column. He 

 also erected his own tomb in it, behind which he placed the 

 altar of the Blessed "Virgin. The wood work of the reredos 

 of that altar, of great interest, containing paintings of the 

 fifteenth century, was taken away a few years ago, and 

 not a vestige of it now remains." Why it was thought necessary 

 to destroy this I cannot tell you. I would rather not speak 

 of the ruthless destruction which has taken place in the 

 Cathedral. It is too painful. There has been more mis- 

 chief done during the last forty years than was done pre- 

 viously during a couple of centuries. Beautiful pieces of work, 

 containing many interesting features, have been swept away 

 under the ridiculous notion of restoring the building to what was 

 called its original state of Norman simplicity. All the 



