NOR WICH. 
points of interfeGtion. The door-way leading from the 
ag rn aifle of the cloifters to the nave is very curious. It 
n the pointed arch ftyle, with four columns on each fide, 
eee correfponding archivolt mouldings, in front of whic 
are feven canopied niches, with richly {culptured crockets, 
and each ficladin a ftatue. 
The weft front of the cathedral difplays a large central 
compartment, fronting and correfponding with the width 
and height of the nave; alfo tw o lateral divifions comelond. 
The elevation of the former fhews 
windows and arcades, though part 
he coir. 
of the femicircular ftyle, di- 
ents, By a flat buttrefs between 
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ied ‘the sy tana of the aifle, which is unufually iy and 
narr e this is a feries of arches to the upper part 
of is nave, ” ifplaying in each compartment a pointe 
arched window in the middle, with a se hee moulding 
over it, and two la teral Slave arches. The and front 
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furmounted by a tpi e, the whole height of which is 31 
et. The former exhibits four ftories, befides that of the 
battlements ; and each is ed h 
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ee tracery mouldings, of very varie 
is an interefting {pecimen of the Norman ftyle of 
a teGure, ae it at that period, when the femi- 
circular and interfeCting arches with tall light columns were 
lee and jut before the pointed arch was generally 
ted. The battlements and pinnacles at the angles are 
of | a ‘Tat ter ftyle, as is the oGtangular fpire, which has bold 
crockets attached to, and running up, the ribs at each angle. 
In the interior of the choir and its aifles a very diffimilar 
ftyle ef architeCture is exhibited ; for the former oe large 
lofty windows, with pointed ar rches 8, ornamented with mul- 
lions and tracery, whilft the latter difplays feveral Viioes 
with ques Paice divided ne) three mullions and tracery. 
Thefe are curious and rare oa 
Bold eoreels project froin the upper part of the choir, 
fuffi 
f the interior it muft ce to 
the 
hold and fant Ayle o = 
every architect, a > an n of tafte, ny the mo- 
pie fittings up Of he choir, eas in the aifle, encum- 
bered ftate : the aga &c, tend to disfigure the build- 
ony, propriety, character, and 
ing, an oy harm 
beaut he prefent choir, or part appropriated for cathe- 
dral fivi made end from the femicircular eaft 
is 
end poi oe apo and 8 the third column in the nave. 
This fpace is nearly enclofed with boarded and painted par- 
titions, filling up the arches, and fhutting out the fight from 
all general and comprehenfive views of the building. 
Tombs, &¥e. =i cathedral contains various fepulchra 
femora: ert, the founder, 
William Boleyn, great grandfather to queen Elizabeth; fir 
Roger Bigod, knt. fewer to king Henry I.; fir Walter de 
Berney, Calthorp, Bofvill, Baconthorpe, &e. In the cha- 
pel called our Lady the Lefs, is an arched mural monument 
to fir William Beauchamp, the founder, who lived in the 
ee of Edward I. and Edward IT. 
a meeting-houfe. Jefus chapel, in the cathedral, was ori- 
gin ally appropriated to the ufe of the prelate; but being 
ound inconvenient, bifhop Salmon ere€ted another near the 
palace. In this, which was one hundred and thirty feet 
long by thirty bread, were buried the founder, and {everal, 
other prelates. In 161 » it was licenfed for the Walloon 
A of the Bifbops of Norw . Herbert Lofinga 
having Lake Bile som hale ‘held it ‘il his zm 
In I11g. 
2. Eborard, or Everard, after a vacancy of nearly three 
years, was advanced to the prelacy in 1121. He retired in 
1146, and was fucceede by 
. William Turbus, on whofe death, in 1175, 
John of Oxford, dean of Salifbury, was elected. He 
died j in hear 
de Grey was promoted to the fee. He died a 
Ol facw 4 in 121 bifhopric was then vacant ates 
feven years, and was conferred, in 1222, on 
6. Pandulphus, the pope’s legate ‘On his death, 
. Thomas de Blandeville was “ eonlecrated in 12263 
dying | in 1236. 
Ralfo was ele&ed in his ftead; and died the fol- 
care yea 
William de Raleigh, after a conteft of three years, ob- 
tained the feein 1240. Onhis tranflation to Winchefter, in 
1244, 
10. Walter de Suffield, or Suthfield, was eleGed : he died 
in 1257, and was fucceeded by 
11. Simon 
