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	Gentleman's Magazine 1839 part 2 p.170
book review   History and Antiquities of Carlisle Cathedral   Robert W Billings
	History and Antiquites of Carlisle Cathedral Book review. The History and Antiquities of Carlisle Cathedral. By Robert William Billings. 4to. pt.I. 15 plates. MR. Billings, an artist whose works have often come under public notice, and whose talents as an architectural draughtsman are well known by his engravings illustrative of the Temple Church, St. Stephen's Chapel, and other ancient structures, has announced his intention of completing such of the English Cathedrals which are not included in the Cathedral Antiquities of Mr. Britton: a publication which, we are compelled with unfeigned regret to add, is now brought to a termination, with the omission of several of these noble relics of ancient art and piety, which to the antiquary are not the least interesting of our national temples. The author has commenced with Carlisle Cathedral, which, from the remoteness of its situation, in addition to its unfinished and mutilated state, has received but little attention from the hands of the antiquary - still, although it is destined to hold an inferior rank amongst our Cathedrals, to occupy a place inferior to the grand and splendid structures at Canterbury and Lincoln, and to yield in proportion and beauty to Wells, Lichfield, or Salisbury, it possesses many features which are beautiful to the eye of the antiquary, and valuable to the student of our ancient architecture. The choir, for instance, is a rich specimen of the architecture of the fourteenth century, and is perhaps not surpassed by any existing structure of equal magnitude. Mr. Billings proposes to illustrate this Cathedral by forty-five engravings, to be accompanied by an historical and architectural account, which
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