Cathedral

the principal church of a diocese, so called from its po e ing the episcopal chair or cathedra. The most notable cathedral is St. Peter’s at Rome, founded 1450. Notre Dame at Paris, St. Paul’s in London, Canterbury and York Cathedrals are all noted. Nearly all] the cathedrals in England were a very long time in* building. Bristol was 582 years before its final completion in 1888, Gloucester was 425, Peter borough was 410, Durham 407, Exeter 366, St. David’s 342, York 301, and Lich field 272. world, 78 feet high and 33 feet wide. Gloucester has an east window 72 feet by 38 feet, but it is not so beautiful, and the lower part is unglazed. St. Pierre, Beauvais, has the highest choir in the world, being 3 feet higher even than that of St. Peter’s at Rome, which is 150 feet. Amiens has one 140 feet that of York Minster is 120 feet, Westminster Abbey; 102 feet, and St. Paul’s 100 feet Durham has the largest library, 15,000 books St. Paul’s and York have ii.ooo, Canterbury has; only 10,000, but has some veiy valuable manuscripts, as also Lincoln has. Chi chester has a secret dungeon, entered by a sliding door. civil and ecclesiastical restraints to which the Roman Catholics’ in Great Britain and Ireland were sub; jected. In 1829 a bill was pa ed which made Romanists eligible to all offices of State except the Lord-Chancellorship of England and Ireland, the Lord- Lieutenancy of Ireland, the Regency of the United Kingdom, or being High Commi ioner to the Church of Scotland Compendium of General Knowledge