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to the parliamentary returns of 1811 
12,931 inhabitants, of whom rors perfons belonged to the 
colleges. 
Public Buildings belonging to the City. —Befides the col- 
public ftru€tures already mentioned as pecu- 
h the univerfity, there are feveral 
ae {cription are the cathedral, the parifh churches, and the 
rel he of diffenters ; and under the latter we fhall include 
town and re eee - Radcliffe infirmary, the 
Houte of Induftry, the county gaol, the cit 
Bridewell, the aa ad aaa and the range of 
buildings for the m 
The Cathedral Church is fituated to the eaft of the grand 
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In its archite@ure this church prefents the ftyles and exam- 
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and fifty-four feet in length. J 
with a {pire to the height of one hundred and forty-four feet. 
Some of the windows contain fine {pecimens of painted glafs, 
and in the north aifle is a monument attributed to St. Fri- 
defwide. 
St. Mar ”s Church, or, as it is fometimescalled, the Univer- 
fity Church, is a beautiful ftru@ture, in the pointed ftyle of 
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finely ornamented with ftatues in niches, pinnacles, &c. 
this church the public fermons of the univerfity are preached 
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throne, which is elevated feveral fteps above the other feats. 
Clofe to the throne are the feats of the proCtors, and next to 
them, on either fide, fit the doGtors and heads of hou 
he church - All-Saiats is fituated in the fame ftreet 
with St. Mary’s, but is is a ftrudture of a very different kind, 
being of comparatively modern erection, and in the ftyle of 
facred architecture, which fir Chrifto 
Eugland. The precife date 
is uncertain, as the claims of 
nary to be the aie are at leaft as doubtful as 
the ftory of his iduatiaadaae ed the patronage of kin 
Alfred. This church was formerly the univerfity church, 
and the vice-chancellor and Beads of houfes ftill sci divine 
ervice here in the afternoon of the Sundays during Lent. 
It has a nave, chancel, and two fide aifles, with a tower at 
the weft end. The chancel is a fingular and curious fpe- 
cimen of architeGural defign ; oobaadar be in the ribs be- 
neath the ceiling, and in two windows. ath the chancel 
is a crypt, fupported by fix circular eile with 
bafes and capitals. Some of the latter are charged w 
very rude, but fingular feta, See Archite@ural ‘An. 
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rfax, or St. Martin's Church, is compofed of a nave, 
two narrow aifles, and a chancel, with a tower at the weft 
end, which was reduced to its prefent height in the time of 
Edward III. -» on a complaint by the {cholars that the townf- 
men frequently took poffeffion of it ‘* in time of combat,” 
and annoyed them therefrom with ftones and arrows, as 
rom a cattle. 
St. Glement’s Church is a {mall building of one aifle and 
a chancel, and alow tower at the weftend. St. Ebds, focailed 
from Ebba, daughter of Ethelfrid, king of Northumbria, 
is likewife of {mall dimenfi - containing a nave, north aifle, 
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with the se of Lincoln. The tower oF Sis eine. is 
of great antiquity, but its other parts are ef late erection. 
So likewife is the church of St. Peter’s in the Bailey, which 
is a ftone es finifhed in 1740. St. ri aed on the 
other hand, is very ancient, having been ufed as a cloifter 
to receive apres training . the priory of St. "Fridefwide 
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