THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF
PETERBOROUGH

A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC
AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF
THE EPISCOPAL SEE

BY

THE REV. W.D. SWEETING, M.A.

WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON: G. BELL AND SONS, LTD. 1926

First Published, February 1898
Second Edition, Revised, 1899.
Reprinted, 1906, 1911, 1922, 1926.

PREFACE.

The chief authorities consulted in the preparation of this book arenamed in the text. Besides the well-known works of reference on theEnglish Cathedrals, and the "Monastic Chronicles," there are severalthat deal with Peterborough alone, of which the most important andvaluable are "Gunton's History" with Dean Patrick's Supplement,"Craddock's History," the monographs by Professor Paley and Mr Poole,and the Guide of Canon Davys. If I have ventured to differ from some ofthese writers on various points, I must appeal, in justification, to acareful and painstaking study of the Cathedral and its history, during aresidence at Peterborough of more than twenty years.

My best thanks are due to Mr Caster of Peterborough, for permission toincorporate with this account the substance of a Guide, which I preparedfor him, published in 1893; and to Mr Robert Davison of London, for hisdescription of the Mosaic Pavement, executed by him for the Choir. Idesire also to express my thanks for the drawings supplied by Mr W.H.Lord, Mr H.P. Clifford, and Mr O.R. Allbrow; and to acknowledge myindebtedness to the Photochrom Company, Ld., and to Messrs S.B. Bolas &Co., for their excellent photographs.

W.D. SWEETING.

In this new edition the corrections are limited almost entirely toalterations necessitated by lapse of time. In connexion with which Ihave to thank Mr H. Plowman of Minster Precincts, Peterborough.

E. BELL.
June 1922.

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