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Show Pay your time Is limited to four weeks; or. lu-iier than I lint, soy six wok and that will give you a week In which to go nnd one to come, and allow yon a little le than four week to "do" Knglntid. I would suggest seeing see-ing enin of the famous cathedral towns on the wav from l.lverisiol to London, direct route, and making various var-ious sl.lo excnr-lons off tho main line to a town l.ere and there, Just by way of vsrlety. Bay you have landed at Liverpool. Take tho next trnln for Chester, that quaintest ol qu iltit towns, full of historical his-torical Intircid. Ij-i us begin with Chenter rathe. Iral nnd coiidi nso a few lmpnrlnnt facts about this and other long rows of I.ombordy poplnrs guard the white roads. lleond lovely Cum-brldgo Cum-brldgo wo traverse a flat country ai:aln. Kverywbere mowers nre at work, haystacks rise and dot tbo plain. And then we shut our eyes for a moment, and to! the arena clinnge completely, A gray tower rises superbly su-perbly from a tangle of green foliage; clustered dwellings raise their roofii and rhlmt.eys below; a grny spire near by, ami over all the glorious sunshine: sun-shine: and this- Is Kly! Impatiently we mount Iho hill, along the lane Known as the "flallcry." and rench tho west end of tho cathedral. From tho summit uf tho western tow- fs&y. .) f kk.ik Beautiful Ely. ' great houses of worship as wo go along. The patron saint of ('hosier cathedral was St. Werlmrgh. und the church was originally er.lalilslhed by ocular canons. In the 11th century It wns refouiuled as a llenedlctlno monastery by the Karl of Cbostur, w ho was ruler of the Welsh marshes. Then Henry VIII. niado Chester the seal ot the bishopric, which extended northward north-ward Into Yorkshire and Westmoreland. Westmore-land. The Interior of Chester cathedral cathe-dral la most effective. It Is 355 feet king by 75 feel wldo, and rises to a iloJuliUu tlie vaulting of 7H feet. Journeying on down to Lichfield we come upon tho vast cathedral. This ancient kingdom was converted Into Christianity by missionaries of the Irish church about 653. and the most famous bishop of this early time was 81. Chad, or Cesdda. Abbot Chad bees be-es me bishop of York, visiting his wild diocese on foot and alono. Ho waa finally apxlnled to the see of Lichfield. Lich-field. It Is of this saintly mnn that the beautiful stories and legends have coino down to us from Dodo. Thus tho cathedral of Llchlleld Is largely built with offerings that huve come to fit. Chad's shrine. From Him until ir.il tho building was never practically out of tho process pro-cess of construction. First they pulled pull-ed down the Normnti choir, and the present structure Is or nlsiut 12i0. Some twenty years Inter they began the south transept. About leu years later than this the north transept, ckaptor hous and vestibule we're coinmoncod. The chapter house Is uiilquo In design, being an orlugon, with two long and six short sides. Hero there Is much beautiful glass by Kenipo. About i;gi) they commenced the nave. Tbla has now the reninrka-bio reninrka-bio cloroHtory windows, the triangles fitting perfectly Into the wall arches of the rnult, giving the whole arrangement arrange-ment a atnblllly and propriety which lis never been surpassed. inr wo see below a aceno of wonderful beauty, t'amjirlilge, HufTolk, Northampton Northamp-ton and the country for thirty miles around. Far nwny, a mora dark blot on tho scene, lies reterborouch. Thirty Thir-ty miles In the opisjhlto direction with a powerful glnss wo might doscry the spiles of Lynn. Ilelow us, close at our feet, lies ono of the cleanest and prettiest towns In all Knglnnd; full of twisted streets and clean-looking yol-low yol-low brick houses with brown bate for tile ixtofH. The cathedral Itself clalma our quick attention. Way ot In (,73 think of it, no figure I to place before this date In 1173, then, a religious house waa founded here by Ktholilreda, Queen of Kast Anglla. The Danea entered the lltllo village In 870 and burned tho church, and 100 yeara later the church was repaired and A body of Ilenedlctlun monk placed there by F.thclwold. Later. In 10S2, caine the Normans and began this present mini-moth mini-moth house of worship. Kach of the great Kngllsh abbeys has a dlHtlnctivo character. Kly Is not only glorious, but It Is also strange. Insldo Iho church there Is no obstruction to your view from end to end of the great pile. The cuthedruls of Kly and Winchester Winches-ter are very similar; both have the aisles In the west ns Weil at- tho east tiansepts. Thu nave of 'Kly has 13 bays, Its transepts three, and Its choir live. The choir ends In a semicircular semicircu-lar apse. There Is tlio rentrnl tower and the one western tower, flanked w ith four turrets. Kxtcrnully tho western west-ern transept gives tho cathedral groat breudth and dignity, und Inside It la the most picturesque bit of Norman work throughout the country. Of Abbot Ab-bot Simeon's lllh century work lltllo In now li lt except to tho east of the organ lu the vnultltig shafts; the exterior ex-terior of tho west windows and the Ionic cnpltnls of the lower part of tho eastern walls of the transepts. " Hi-ant 1 1 ul for situation, the Joy ot , 5 !;- 'it1;. ;, -iij ,i ' ' 'V"':v;..t ".'J' h h:.S'- !n j. Exeter Cathedral. j In reullty tho Interior of this en-tbeJrul en-tbeJrul is small, -pir. by CD feet, with s Bolxlu of ) feet lii the vaulting, hiX the Impression from the unbroken tlsta Is of a cathedral of vast length, term I n .-v 1 1 n K th0 won,ici fully beautiful beauti-ful Lady chapel. Journeying northward from Iindon tl stretch of level country between AoJIy Knd and Cambridge is dotted only with farms und eotiugo village. Prt""Uy the land grows hilly; hedge n"l'undnnt; wooden windmills swing plctruquely through the plciure. nnd ' tho wholo earth." Thus la Lincoln cathedral ca-thedral described In u few words. Lincoln Lin-coln Is not so very old. Oh. dour, no; dating only from 1074! The extorlor Is characterized by elegant proportions. propor-tions. The remarkably tluo windows are grouped most beuutlfnll). Interiorly Inter-iorly it In supiHiied to bo rather bad, except that magnificent angel choir. Thu proportions of tho interior are low and contorted. Tho original do-sign do-sign was for Lincoln caihedial to have five towers Instead of ;: cxlmlng three. |