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choir and nave, have a most solemn effect, and cannot but deeply 

 move us. Peterborough, Norwich, and Gloucester, magnifi- 

 cent as they are in their early portions, sink down, I may say 

 to nothing, when compared with the greater glories of Durham. 

 When we stand within its time-hallowed walls, as we do to-day, 

 and allow our minds to feel the due influence of its massive but 

 perfect proportion, it seems as if it had been built for ever. It 

 looks like the eternal hills. 



This church we owe to William of St. Carilef. The whole 

 plan of the building must have been elaborated and the main 

 lines laid down by that Bishop. The choir and other parts 

 are of his own building, and the nave, though built by Flam- 

 bard, carries out in its main features the original design. The 

 only difference between the two parts is in the richer effect 

 given in the nave by the use of zig-zag and in the different 

 patterns on the pillars. The work throughout harmonises in 

 the highest degree, and that harmony is made more apparent 

 by the variation. Two men have, it is evident, worked upon 

 the church with the same intention, and upon the same plan ; 

 and the slight difference in the character of their work but 

 adds an additional interest and charm to the whole. In con- 

 clusion, I may repeat that the plan of the whole church is, 1 

 think, unquestionably due to Carilef, who finished a great part of 

 the church, and who, I believe, carried the walls to the top of the 

 arcade of the aisles round the whole building, I have now con- 

 cluded my remarks, and will go round the building with you. 



Mr Greenwell then conducted the party through the church, 

 and pointed out in succession its various architectural features. 



Report of the Meeting at the Castle, Durham. 



After the Cathedral had been inspected the company pro- 

 ceeded to the Castle to hear a paper by Mr W. H. D. Longstaffe. 

 That gentleman having sustained an accident to his eye, the 

 paper, so far as complete, was read by Canon Ornsby : — 



Although one very early story of Durham is, it must be confessed, some- 

 what ohscure, and the questions arising as to its occupation in Eoman days, 

 and the identity of Maiden Castle with Wardenlaw, where St. Cuthbert's 

 body became immovable, do not enter my scope ; it is, however, noteworthy, 

 we cannot doubt, that the town was fortified in some fashion during the 



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