GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL, FROM THE ROOF OF ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.

THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF
GLOUCESTER

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

BY H. J. L. J. MASSÉ, M.A.

AUTHOR OF "TEWKESBURY ABBEY" AND "DEERHURST PRIORY," ETC.

WITH FORTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1905

First Published January 1899

Second Edition August 1900

Reprinted January 1905

GENERAL PREFACE

This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to thegreat English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide-booksat a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a workcompiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to thestudent of Archæology and History, and yet not too technical in languagefor the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist.

To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each casewould be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst the generalsources of information which have been almost invariably found usefulare:—(1) the great county histories, the value of which, especially inquestions of genealogy and local records, is generally recognised; (2)the numerous papers by experts which appear from time to time in theTransactions of the Antiquarian and Archæological Societies; (3) theimportant documents made accessible in the series issued by the Masterof the Rolls; (4) the well-known works of Britton and Willis on theEnglish Cathedrals; and (5) the very excellent series of Handbooks tothe Cathedrals originated by the late Mr John Murray; to which thereader may in most cases be referred for fuller detail, especially inreference to the histories of the respective sees.

GLEESON WHITE, E. F. STRANGE,
vEditors of the Series.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

I wish to express my great obligations to Mr F. S. Waller (the CathedralArchitect) for his courtesy and kindness in allowing me to make thefullest use of his "Notes and Sketches" of the Cathedral, a book whichis now, unfortunately, out of print; to Mr W. H. St. John Hope, F.S.A.,for permission to quote from his "Notes on the Benedictine Abbey of St.Peter at Gloucester," published in the Records of Gloucester Cathedral;also to the Records of Gloucester Cathedral.

To Mr E. J. Burrow I owe special thanks for permission to use blocksmade from his black-and-white drawings, one of which has not beenpublished before; to the Very Rev. the Dean for much useful informationand assistance; and lastly to the Sub-Sacrist, Mr T. W. G. Cooke, whosehelp has been at all times ungrudging and invaluable.

H. viJ. L.J. M.

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