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Title: The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Corlette, Hubert Christian
Subjects: Chichester Cathedral
Publisher: London : G. Bell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ts of the tower ; and between these, on the otherfour faces of the spire, are tall stone dormers, with carvedcrockets and finials on the copings of the high-pitched gables.Above this group the spire is divided into three sections bytwo bands of diaper-work cut out of the stone surfaces ascusped quatrefoils; and from the base of the spire to itscapstone there is a projecting rib on each angle betweenthe several faces of the octagon. The Bell Tower, which stands alone to the north of thecathedral, is now the only one of its kind in England; andit is curious that in two cases where these towers were found,as at Salisbury and at Norwich, spires had been added tothe central towers. The cathedral bells have been hung inthis tower since the fifteenth century. The structure itself,with its massive walls, is square in plan at the base, but atthe top story it becomes an octagon, and the buttresses oneach angle terminate as pinnacles between the angles of thesquare and four sides of the octagon.
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Pliuloclnoni Co., Ltd., phot). THE NAVE, LOOKING WEST, CHAPTER III. THE INTERIOR. The Nave of Chichester, compared with that of othercathedrals, possesses several peculiar characteristics. It hasa beauty apart from others in the quiet simplicity with whichit has been designed. There is an evident restraint, almostseverity, to be felt in studying the exquisite proportions ofits parts. It does not exhibit the massive force and strengthof Durham; but the rigid power in the square piers of thearcades is stern compared with the more subtle variationsof light and shade produced by the curved surfaces of thecircular piers either at Ely or Peterborough. During the Reformation period the divisions between theseveral chapels to the north and south of the nave wereremoved; and so since that date Chichester has been theonly cathedral in England which has what may be called fiveaisles, and it is wider than any other, excepting York, beingninety-one feet across. The central space, or nave proper, i

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