Gents Mag 1863 part 1 p.495

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1863 part 1 p.495 THE CHOIR OF CARLISLE CATHEDRAL. MR. URBAN, - The authorities quoted by Mr. Mackenzie Walcott in your last number agree in ascribing the choir of Carlisle to the latter half of the thirteenth century, with the exception of the Rev. G. A. Pole. who assigns it, without quoting any authority, to Hugh of Beaulieu, which must be an erroneous supposition. It is the most beautiful choir of its style that we possess, and was erecetd at the time the early English was fully developed, which was not until at least fifty years after the death of Hugh. Besides, having alienated the possessions of the see, it is not at all probable that he would have the welfare of the convent so much at heart as to design (even supposing he were capable) so beautiful a structure. The quotation from Nicholson and Burn of entries for works about the altar in 1188, so far from confuting my opinion of the Norman choir remaining until the commencement of the present one, rather confirms it, by presuming that the structural choir having been completed, the attention of the monks was directed to the decorations of the altar. - Iam, &c., EDWARD THOMPSON. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, March 16, 1863.
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