Architecture
The Nave 25 The Font and Organ 26, 28 The North Transept 28 The Tower 30 The South Transept 30 St. Catherine's Chapel 32 Monuments in the Transepts 34 The Choir 39 The Triforium 42 The Clerestory 44 The Roof 44 The Hammer-beams 45 The East Window 46 The Salkeld Screen 52 The B...
The cathedral now consists of part of the original nave (the two eastern bays only) with aisles; and north and south transepts without aisles, but with a chapel on the east side...
7. CHAPTER IVEcgfrith, king of Northumbria, drove the Britons away from what is now the northern part of Lancashire, and the Lake district, 670-675. Some years later he granted Carlisle with...
4. CHAPTER IWhen William Rufus returned southwards after re-establishing the city of Carlisle, he left as governor a rich Norman priest named Walter. He began at once to build a church to b...
5. CHAPTER IIThere are the remains of a Norman nave whose roof is lower than the choir roof. The choir is Early English with clerestory windows, and the easternmost bay (the retro-choir) Lat...
8. CHAPTER VThe #Castle# is built on the highest ground in the city, a kind of cliff at the north-west angle rising abruptly about sixty feet above the river Eden. An area of nearly three a...
3. CHAPTER V.--The Castle 89PAGE The Cathedral from the South-West _Frontispiece_ Arms of the Diocese _Title Page_ The Cathedral from the North-East 2 The Cathedral and Precincts (from an Old Plan) 7 The E...
2. CHAPTER III.--The Cathedral, Interior 25The Nave 25 The Font and Organ 26, 28 The North Transept 28 The Tower 30 The South Transept 30 St. Catherine's Chapel 32 Monuments in the Transepts 34 The Choir 39 The Triforium...
1. CHAPTER II.--The Cathedral, Exterior 12