The Cathedral Church of Peterborough Part 8

=William Connor Magee= (1868-1891) was Dean of Cork. He was translated to the Archbishopric of York, but died within a very few months, May 5th, 1891. He is buried in the Cathedral Yard, where a ma.s.sive cross of Irish marble has been erected over his grave. In the south choir aisle of the cathedral there is also a rec.u.mbent effigy, the likeness to the deceased prelate being most remarkably good. His career is so recent and his eminence so well known that it is unnecessary to speak of them.

=Mandell Creighton= (1891-1897) had been Canon of Windsor, and previously of Worcester. He was translated to London when Bishop Temple became Archbishop of Canterbury. He died in 1901, and is buried in the crypt of S. Paul's; an inlaid marble slab copied from the one over his grave is in the south choir aisle of the cathedral.

=Hon. Edward Carr Glyn= (1897-1916), Vicar of Kensington, Chaplain to the Queen; resigned 1916.

=Frank Theodore Woods= (1916), Vicar of Bradford, Yorks, 1912-1916, is the present bishop.

[Ill.u.s.tration: PLAN OF THE CATHEDRAL.]

PRINc.i.p.aL DIMENSIONS.

Interior length, 426 feet.

Interior height, 78 "

Nave length, 228 "

Nave width, 35 "

Nave and Aisles, 79 "

Transept length, 185 "

Transept width, 58 "

Area, 41,090 sq feet

DEANS OF PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL.

1541 Francis Abree, B.D.

1543 Gerard Carleton, B.D., Canon of Westminster.

1549 James Curthop, M.A., Canon of Christ Church.

1557 James Boxall, LL.D., Archdeacon of Ely, Warden of Winchester, Dean of Norwich, Dean of Windsor.

1560 William Latimer, D.D., Archdeacon of Westminster.

1585 Richard Fletcher, D.D., Bishop of Bristol, of Worcester, and finally of London.

1590 Thomas Nevill, D.D., Master of Magdalene, and afterwards of Trinity, Cambridge, Canon of Ely, Dean of Canterbury.

1597 John Palmer, D.D., Prebendary of Lichfield, Master of Magdalene, Cambridge.

1607 Richard Clayton, D.D., Archdeacon of Ely, Master of Magdalene, and afterwards of S. John's, Cambridge.

1612 George Meriton, D.D., Dean of Bucking, Dean of York.

1616 Henry Beaumont, D.D., Dean of Windsor.

1622 William Peirse, D.D., Prebendary of S. Paul's, Canon of Christ Church, Bishop of Peterborough, and afterwards of Bath and Wells.

1630 John Towers, D.D., Bishop of Peterborough.

1638 Thomas Jackson, D.D., Prebendary of Winchester, President of Corpus, Oxford.

1640 John Cosin, D.D., Prebendary of Durham, Archdeacon of Cleveland, Master of Peterhouse, Dean of Durham.

1660 Edward Rainbow, D.D., Master of Magdalene, Cambridge, Bishop of Carlisle.

1664 James Duport, D.D., Master of Magdalene, Cambridge, Professor of Greek, Prebendary of Lincoln.

1679 Simon Patrick, D.D., Canon of Westminster, Bishop of Chichester, and afterwards of Ely.

1689 Richard Kidder, D.D., Prebendary of Norwich, Bishop of Bath and Wells.

1601 Samuel Freeman D.D.

1707 White Kermett, D.D., Archdeacon of Huntingdon, Prebendary of Lincoln and of Sarum, Bishop of Peterborough.

1718 Richard Reynolds, LL.D., Prebendary and Chancellor of Peterborough, Bishop of Bangor, and afterwards of Lincoln.

1721 William Gee, D.D., Canon of Westminster, Prebendary and Dean of Lincoln.

1722 John Mandeville, D.D., Archdeacon and Chancellor of Lincoln, Canon of Windsor.

1725 Francis Lockier, D.D.

1740 John Thomas, D.D., Canon of Westminster and of S. Paul's, Bishop of Lincoln, and afterwards of Salisbury.

1744 Robert Lamb, D.D., Bishop of Peterborough.

1764 Charles Tarrant, D.D., Canon of Bristol, Dean of Carlisle, Prebendary of Rochester, Prebendary of Sarum.

1791 Charles Manners Sutton, D.D., Bishop of Norwich, Dean of Windsor, Archbishop of Canterbury.

1792 Peter Peckard, D.D., Prebendary of Southwell, Master of Magdalene, Cambridge.

1798 Thomas Kipling, D.D.

1822 James Henry Monk, D.D., Professor of Greek, Cambridge, Canon of Westminster, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.

1830 Thomas Turton, D.D., Professor of Mathematics, Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, Prebendary of Lincoln, Dean of Westminster, Bishop of Ely.

1842 George Butler, D.D., Headmaster of Harrow.

1853 Augustus Page Saunders, D.D., Headmaster of Charterhouse.

1878 John James Stewart Perowne, D.D., Prebendary of S. David's, Canon of Llandaff, Margaret Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, Bishop of Worcester.

1891 Marsham Argles, D.D., Canon of Peterborough.

1893 William Clavell Ingram, D.D., Hon. Canon of Peterborough.

1901 William Hagger Barlow, D.D., Prebendary of S. Paul's Cathedral.

1908 Arnold Henry Page, M.A.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: "English Towns and Districts," 1883, pp. 103, 130.]

[Footnote 2: A few other cathedrals which were originally churches of monasteries are still called Minsters, as York (nearly always), Canterbury (occasionally), Ripon, Southwell, and perhaps more. Lincoln Cathedral though often called a Minster was a Cathedral from the first, and was never attached to a monastery.]

[Footnote 3: Gunton, p. 4.]

[Footnote 4: "Ingulf and the Historia Croylandensis." By W.G. Searle, M.A., Camb. Antiq. Soc., 8vo. xxvii. p. 65.]

[Footnote 5: Searle: Ingulf, p. 63.]

[Footnote 6: "On the Abbey Church of Peterborough." By G.A. Poole, M.A.

Arch. Soc. Archdeac. Northampton, 1855, p. 190.]

[Footnote 7: Poole, p. 193.]

[Footnote 8: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, anno 1128.]

[Footnote 9: "Remarks on the Architecture of Peterborough Cathedral." By F.A. Paley, M.A. 2nd Ed., 1859, p. 21.]

[Footnote 10: The two eastern pillars of the nave are circular; and the third pillar from the tower, on both sides, is "composed of nook-shafts set in rectangular recesses against the body of the pier."]

[Footnote 11: Some of Mr Poole's reasoning, as to the different parts of the nave to be attributed to different abbots, depends upon an a.s.sumption that the Saxon church was on the site of the present one, and that some part of the nave was still existing in a ruinous condition while the present choir and tower were being built. Recent discoveries have proved that this a.s.sumption is groundless, for the nave of the Saxon church was beyond the south aisle of the existing nave.]

[Footnote 12: Poole, p. 204.]

[Footnote 13: Paley, p. 54.]

[Footnote 14: Poole, p. 216.]

[Footnote 15: The engraving that accompanies this description represents a dignified altar-piece, but seems taken from a rough drawing, or possibly from memory. On the altar were two tapers burning, an alms dish, and two books. The Abbot's chair, of stone, is to the south, facing west.]