On The Lady Chapel In Chester Cathedral
George Becher Blomfield
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ON THE Lady Chapel in Chester Cathedral.
ON THE Lady Chapel in Chester Cathedral.
A PAPER READ BEFORE The Architectural, Archæological, and Historic Society of Chester. BY THE REV. CANON BLOMFIELD. CHESTER: PRINTED AT THE COURANT OFFICE, NORTHGATE STREET. 1859....
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On the Lady Chapel in Chester Cathedral. BY THE REV. CANON BLOMFIELD. [3]
On the Lady Chapel in Chester Cathedral. BY THE REV. CANON BLOMFIELD. [3]
The Lady Chapel of the Cathedral of Chester has long been known to antiquarian architects as an interesting and valuable specimen of the Early English style, but it has scarcely ever been examined in detail by them, and to the general observer has presented no features of special interest.  The keen and accurate judgment of Rickman discovered the general beauty of its proportions; but the destruction of all the original windows, and other disfigurements of the building, which took place when the
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