The Cathedral Church of Peterborough eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 137 pages of information about The Cathedral Church of Peterborough.

The Cathedral Church of Peterborough eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 137 pages of information about The Cathedral Church of Peterborough.

[Footnote 12:  Poole, p. 204.]

[Footnote 13:  Paley, p. 54.]

[Footnote 14:  Poole, p. 216.]

[Footnote 15:  The engraving that accompanies this description represents a dignified altar-piece, but seems taken from a rough drawing, or possibly from memory.  On the altar were two tapers burning, an alms dish, and two books.  The Abbot’s chair, of stone, is to the south, facing west.]

[Footnote 16:  “Memoirs of the Protectoral-House of Cromwell,” ii, 18.]

[Footnote 17:  These shields, which were of metal, are now arranged on the walls of the library.]

[Footnote 18:  Where the author has often seen it.  It was at last destroyed in a fire.]

[Footnote 19:  Museum Criticum, viii, 672.]

[Footnote 20:  “Handbook of Architecture,” 2nd ed., 1859, p. 869.]

[Footnote 21:  “English Towns and Districts,” 1883, p. 29.]

[Footnote 22:  Guide, p. 48.]

[Footnote 23:  Sir William Feeld, Peticanon, in his will dated 1558, desires that his body may be buried in the Gallery before the church door, where all his fellows are buried.  “Gallery” here is probably a corruption of “Galilee.”]

[Footnote 24:  Paley, p. 30.]

[Footnote 25:  Gunton, p. 91.]

[Footnote 26:  Patrick’s Supplement to Gunton, p. 334.]

[Footnote 27:  King Ethelred resigned his crown and became Abbot of Bardney.  He is here figured with a mitre.]

[Footnote 28:  As well as one other, probably the one now under one of the arches on the north of the choir.]

[Footnote 29:  Archaeological Journal, 1861, p. 196.]

[Footnote 30:  Gunton, p. 12.]

[Footnote 31:  Properly Northumberland.  See Bede’s Eccl.  Hist. iii. 6.]

[Footnote 32:  Patrick, p. 284.]

[Footnote 33:  Historical Memorials of Canterbury, p. 184.]

[Footnote 35:  Patrick, p. 330.]

[Footnote 35:  Stubbs’ Episcopal Succession, p. 79.]

[Footnote 36:  Gunton, p. 82.]

[Footnote 37:  P. 12; quoted in the account of Bishop Cumberland in the Penny Cyclopeia, viii. 229.]

[Footnote 38:  A full account of this famous picture with an engraving is given in Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, iv. 209.]

INDEX

Abbots, account of, 112-126. 
Altars, 87. 
Apse, 22.

Bell-tower, 48. 
Benedict, Abbot, 16. 
Bishops, account of, 127-134.

Canons’ door, 56. 
Ceiling of nave, 84; of choir, 64. 
Chapel of St. Thomas, 100. 
Choir, 60-76. 
Church of S. John Baptist, 108. 
City, 108. 
Cloister Court, 103.

Danes, ravages of, 6, 8, 11. 
Deanery, 102. 
Deans, 136. 
Dean’s door, 50. 
Diocese, history of, 127.

Edgar, King, 8-10. 
Ernulf, Abbot, 12. 
Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, 8.

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