was much higher in the Lincoln Cathedral than in York Minster. Miss Gray said, "It is 300 feet high, the highest without a spire in all England." At 12 o'clock the Cartmell party heard "Great Tom" in this tower strike, with a grand majestic sound solemn and slow, in the key of A. Looking at the eastern side, they saw many gables, doubled buttresses, pointed arches, and brackets. Upon the latter stood fine statues. "I declare," remarked Mrs. Cartmell, "it does seem as if these builders could turn stone into airy lace." walked through the nave. Fred was pleased to obtain an excellent photograph of this part, Lincoln Cathedral. showing the pointed arches with the clustered columns, the aisle on one side, and the clerestory above. The choirs gen The roof in erally found in cathedrals are plainly seen in the picture, arranged just as Fred found them, in the nave. this cathedral, they learned, was of stone. Passing into the transept, Mr. French called their attention to the great round windows, one of which he said was called the bishop's eye, and the other the dean's eye. The latter was a good specimen of an Early English window of about 1200. It was a wheel instead of a rose window. It showed to perfection plant-tracery. The stone-work was light and graceful. The sashes formed an arabesque. The color of the glass was fresh, and very rich in ruby, emerald, sapphire, and other tints. Miss Gray several times called the children's attention to the wonderful carving in wood seen in the chancel and choir. She admired the choir screen, but considered it inferior to the one at York. Half a day was spent in visiting the famous Peterborough Cathedral. This building, they learned, was noted for its three large Gothic arches in the western portico. They were each 80 feet high, supported by flanking towers. Miss Gray thought "they had more to do with heaven than earth." The nave was very long and narrow, very massive, but plain to baldness when compared with the two cathedrals already examined. "This cathedral," said Mr. French, "shows us a combination of the four great styles of architecture. The walls and apse are plain Norman; the windows are some of them in Early English, or the pointed style, others are Decorated; i.e., either flowing or geometric; while the fan-vaulting, which we admired so much in the chapel, is Perpendicular. The last three styles, please remember, are subdivisions of the Gothic." On their way to Cambridge in the afternoon, the Cartmells stopped a few hours to see the cathedral in Ely, noted as the most individual and varied architectural church in England. Miss Gray read what Wolcott says about this Ely Cathedral: "The choir and octagon can never be forgotten. In them we see the most exquisite copy of nature, the bossy vaulting like a starry, deep blue sky, the shafted pillar like the moulded stem, the pointed arch like the petals of summer flowers." As the Cartmells approached Cambridge, they noticed that the country became very level, but well timbered. They could trace the rivers by the rows of trees on their sides. As this was the first university town visited, two or three days were spent here. In riding about Cambridge, the coachman drove the Cart |