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We append a statement of all the edifices now standing, in connection with the Established Church, commencing of course with

The present structure is considered by some to be mainly the work of Bishop Alnwyck, temp. 1430, and this prelate is generally supposed to have completed the cloisters—one of the finest quadrangles in the kingdom, commenced by Ralph de Walpole in 1297. The edifice is principally in the Norman style. The nave is divided into fourteen semi-circular arches; its roof is attributed to Walter Lyhart, the second bishop after Alnwyck. The large west window has recently been filled in with stained glass, as a memorial to Bishop Stanley. The nave itself contains the tombs or monuments of Chancellor Spencer, Bishop Nix, Bishop Parkhurst, Dean Gardiner, Sir James Hobart, (Attorney-General to Henry VIII.) and Bishop Stanley; while in the church are the monuments of Bishops Goldwell (1472) and Bathurst. Attached to the Cathedral were several chapels, but these have mostly been demolished. The interior generally suffered much defacement at the hands of the iconoclasts of the 16th and 17th centuries; in 1740 the nave and aisles were repaired, and in 1806 the whole fabric was restored and beautified.