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[op]posite wall is ornamented with three niches, whose
crocketted canopies are delicately chiselled and supported
by slender pillars. In this building is a curious stone
chair, having an impanelled foliated ceiling, called the
confessional. From the Abbey the Cathedral is seen in the
best point of view; a low, square, and embattled tower rises
over the intersection of the cross. The east end cannot be
viewed but in pieces: its centre is filled by the
magnificent window, on each side of which rise buttresses
with crocketted pinnacles; the gable is adorned with
crosses, and its blank space filled with a right angled
spherical window. The design of this front is one of
grandeur; the great size of the window, the boldness of the
buttresses, and the richness of the crockets, crosses, and
finials, unite in rendering it the admiration of all. The
north side of the Cathedral forms a fine street-scene, with
row of trees around its church-yard wall, which has lately
been rebuilt and surmounted by cast-iron rails, the very
elegant design for which was handsomely furnished by R. W.
Billings, Esq.
The Church of St. Cuthbert is a plain modern building.
Trinity Church, in Caldewgate, and Christ Church, are new,
having been lately built by the aid of subscriptions from
the inhabitants and from the Church Building Commissioners.
The former is of the Tudor, the latter of early English
architecture, and both have spires, rising from square
towers, though in a different manner.
At the head of Castle-street, near the Market-
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