Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lincoln

Dimensions

Total Interior Length—482 feet.

Nave—Length to Screen, 252 feet. Width, including Aisles, 80 feet. Height of Vault, 82 feet.

Choir—Length, 158 feet. Height of Vault, 74 feet.

Presbytery—Length, 72 feet. Height of Vault, 74 feet.

West Transept—Length, 222 feet. Width, 61 feet.

East Transept—Length, 170 feet. Width, 36 feet.

Central Tower—Height, 271 feet. Height of Vault, 125 feet.

West Towers—Height about 200 feet.

Chapter-house—Diameter, 60 feet.

AREA—44,400 square feet.

Key to Plan

A. North-West Chapel.

B. Ringers’ Chapel.

C. Morning Prayer Chapel.

D. Consistory Court.

E. Chapel of St. Nicholas.

F. Chapel of St. Denis.

G. Chapel of St. James.

H. Chapel of St. Edward the Martyr.

I. Chapel of St. John the Evangelist.

J. Chapel of St. Giles.

K. “Dean’s Chapel.”

L. Choristers’ Vestry.

M. Ante-Vestry.

N. Canons’ Vestry.

O. Chapter-house Vestibule.

P. Old Common Chamber.

Q, R, T, U. Hugh’s Semi-circular Chapels.

S. Foundations of Lengthened Chapel.

V. Longland Chantry.

W. Fleming Chantry.

X. Russell Chantry.

Y. Presbytery.

Tombs, Monuments, etc.

1. Robert Burghersh.

2. Bishop Burghersh.

3. Queen Eleanor.

4. Sir N. Cantelupe.

5. Prior Wimbische.

6. Sir B. Burghersh.

7. Bishop Wordsworth.

8. Table Tombs (see p. 135).

9. Dean Butler.

10. Bishop Kaye.

11. Bishop Fleming.

12. Countess of Westmorland.

13. Catherine Swynford.

14. Litany Desk.

15. Remigius (?).

16. Font.

17. Easter Sepulchre.

18. Little St. Hugh.

19. Sir G. Talboys (?).

Footnotes

1 (return)
Freeman, “Norman Conquest.”

2 (return)
Freeman, “Norman Conquest.”

3 (return)
Archæological Journal, vol. xl. p. 179.

4 (return)
The chapel was reconstructed according to its original form in 1772.

5 (return)
Archæological Journal, vol. li. p. 104.

6 (return)
Venables, Archæological Journal vol. l.

7 (return)
Professor E. A. Freeman, “York, Lincoln, and Beverley.”

8 (return)
In Gough’s edition [1806] of Camden’s “Britannia,” is a plan giving the positions of the grave-slabs in the old pavement.

9 (return)
The matter is referred to on p. 20.

10 (return)
What has become of the “merveylows fair and large Psaltar, full in the Margin of goodly Armes of many Noble Men,” mentioned by Leland as being “in S. Nicholas Chapell”?