WEREFORD. 
Further additions and alterations’ were progreffively made 
by different prelates: among which the fine northern poré 
was built by bifhop Booth between the years 15.16 and 1535; 
and the choir was fitted up and decorated by dean Tyler, 
about the year 1720. A very memorable epoch in the hif- 
tory, and architectural character of this grand ecclefiattical 
firucture, may be referred to the year 1786, when the great 
weitern tower fell, and buried beneath its ruins part of the 
nave, and nearly the whole of the weit front. The latter 
with the nave and choir, rifes a large {quare tower. The’ 
exterior difplays feveral diflimilar parts, of various dates, 
and various ityles: but the interior is more in unifon, and 
prefents fome interefting features. The nave is divided frem 
the aifles by two rows of maflive columns, fuitaining femi- 
circular arches. Over thefe is a row of arcades on each 
fide, having pointed arches. At the north end of the great 
tranfept, is a part divided from the aifle, and appropriated as 
the pari i 
church of St. John the Baptift.- The choir is: 
lofty, and cortains 50 ftalls with fine ornamented canopies, 
Eaft of this is the ~Lady chapel, now ufed as a library- 
room, and ftored with a valuable colleGtion of books. 
“neath this is a crypt, which, from 
human bones, is called Golgotha. 
cathedral are as follows: extreme length 325° feet 
which are occupied by the nave ;. 96 by the choir, and the 
“ary 
vifhop Braofe, 12153 fir Richard Pembruge, 
13755; bifhop Booth, 1535 Robert de Lo- 
aynelm, 1115; id de Clive, 11193 
Betun, 1148; Robert de Melun, 1167; John 
4 3708, 
nmegted with the cathedral are feveral buildings: fome 
ich are entitled to the notice of the antiquary ;_ parti- 
er palace, the bifhop’s cloifters, the dean- 
| prebenc utes, lle e, Ec. 
vious. to the civil war H 
ne right of 
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tne place is olo 3 fe 
flannel and hat manufa@ories have been alfo eflsblithel we 
Nell wynn, general Stringer Lawrence apt. James 
Cornwall, and David Garrick. The charitable alee 
ments of this city are numerous, and of confiderable utility : 
St. Giles? hofpital was founded in the year 1290: but the 
prefent building was ere@ed in 1720; and is 
and eomprifes twelve fuits of apartments, a chapel, a hal: 
Se: Shellay, for the fame number and clais of 
: and “Price’s, for 12 r men, and a chaplain 
ttone ftruéture called the 
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