The Interior Of A Gothic Minster.*

abours of Mr . L'Estrange and Gambier Parry will add another at Ely . At Winchester the hooks Temain above the base arcade on which the superb suits of tapestry were hung on solemn occasions . At Chichester , the remarkable wall-paintings in the south wing of the transepts , made by

Bernard ! for Bishop Sherborne , are , I fear , irreparably injured ; some were wholly destroyed by the calamitous fall of the tower and spire . At Canterbury , Winchester , St . Albau ' s , Durham , Exeter , Rochester , Carlisle , and Westminster , we can still point to specimens of mural ornament ; and at Exeter

, in the panels of the screen , to thirteen oil paintings of the time of Charles I . ; and still laterof the date 1728—to some figures in distemper , by Damiaui , in the north wing of the choir

transept of Lincoln . The Nave . —Was used for the passage of processions and for preaching . The time at my disposal permits me merely to mention that most of the Orders had their peculiar arrangement , the Benedictines preserving the area of their naves

clear of the parish church found in those of the Austin Canons ; and the Cistercians , holding aloof from the jiresence of any but of their own body , and exhibiting- a stern simplicity , in striking contrast to the snmptuousness of the Clugniac—the Prceinonstratensian churcheswere unusually small

, and irregular—and the friars' naves long and narrow , with ordinarily a single aisle for the brethren during- sermon-time , and a choir separated from approach by a central tower . Bat no positive law can be laid clown for a certain

discrimination at first sight , so frequent are the exceptional instances . Whilst from their constitution the Austin Canons of Thornton , Carlisle , and Christchurch , and the Secular Canons of Hereford and Chichester , left the naves open for the parish altar ; the Benedictines , who , at Rochester ,

Westminster , Chester , St . Alban's and other places , built a separate parish church , yet tolerated it within the nave at Bodmin and Tynemouth . At Romsey the Benedictine nuns , as at Marrick , allotted the north nave aisle to the townspeople , while they occupied that on the south ; and at

Romsey the raised stej : ) of the platform remained till recently for their stalls . At Lincoln , Bishop Sutton removed the parishioners of St . Mary Magdalene out of the nave . In order to give still further relief at Chichester and Scarborough , and with less iniiformity at Manchesterside

, chapels were erected externally to the nave aisles ; for the same reason , a large chapel at York , and . a church of St . Cross at Ely , were appended on the north , and at Rochester and Waltham , on the south of the nave .

In the nave stood the pulpit which appears to have been moveable , as it ought to be" again , after the roodloft was deserted for it . The stationary structures of stone , as at Worcester , 1504 , Wells , sixteenth century , and Ripon are not earlier ( nor were those of Norwich or Exeter now lost ) than

the Perpendicular period , and were copied from the refectory and open air examples , such as those of Beaulieu , Chester , or Magdalen College , Oxford . In most of our cathedrals this traditional use of the nave was observed : at St . David ' s the pulpit stood in it until 1844 . The pulpits of

Winchester and Bristol are of wood , and the sixteenth century ; that of Hereford Elizabethan , and of the same material . That of Lichfield was the gift of Bishop Hacket . It several instances the naves were very inconveniently blocked up ; at Canterbury the south aisle only was available for the

public . At Durham , the Lady Chapel Mocks the west front . It contained an iron pulpit , from which a sermon was preached on Sundays , between one and three , to a congregation of women , as they were not permitted to pass the " row" with a cross of blue marble , which traversed the west end of the nave . This chapel derived its name of Galilee

from being the last station of the procession ( Martene , de Ant . Mon . Bit . iv ., 155 , 204 ) , which took its origin in our Lord's command , given to His disciples after His resurrection . to meet Him in Galilee ( Rupert , Tuiten ., 1 , vii ., c , xxi . ; v . c . viii . ) , and a Durham MS ., quoted hy Hutchinson ,

and Macro in his Lexicon , both mention that the Sunday procession was held in memory of the apostles' journey . But the Durham Rites say that it was called Galilee owing to the transposition of the eastern chapel to this site . Martene ( u . s . p . 363 ) , defines it to be "the lower end of

the church , " and in the aspect may refer to the Galilee of the Gentiles as being the most remote part from the altar . It served as the place of penitents , and also for the burial of the worthy dead , says Ducange ; but I may be permitted to suggest that thc true allusion , after all , was to the

original Hebrew word applied to the outer folding gates of the temple ( 1 Kings vi . 34 ; Ezek . xli . 24 . Comp . Gesenins on the word "Galilee" ) .

In the nave , the sanctuary chamber occupied the basement of the south-west tower : in the next bay was a chapel of Bound P . ood . Towards the east , in the south aisle also , was the Neville chantry , separated by low walls , on the east and west , and from the nave by a screen of ironwork ;

it contained the prior ' s pew when he attended the Jesus Mass . Under the north-west tower was the Saviour's altar , and in the next bay the chapel of Our Lady of Pity , enclosed with wooden screens . In the eastern bay was on organ-loft , used by the choir on Friday for the Jesus Mass , and beyond it were the large folding doors , opening into the transept , which were only unlocked at the time of

processions . In the nave the great processions were arranged ; and at Fountains , at Chichester , and York were two rows of circular processional stones , arranged at proper intervals , and allotted as the positions of the superiors and inferiors and singers . At Canterbury two parallel lines were cut in the pave-