A HISTORY OF CHESTER CATHEDRAL:

WITH

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE BISHOPS AND DEANS.

BY A Member of the Chester Archæological Society.

“On entering a Cathedral, I am filled with devotion and with awe; I am lost to the actualities that surround me, and my whole being expands into the infinite; earth and air, nature and art, all swell up into eternity, and the only sensible impression left is, that I am nothing.”—Coleridge.

CHESTER: GEORGE PRICHARD, BRIDGE STREET ROW, AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

TO THE

VERY REVEREND THE DEAN OF CHESTER,

THE FOLLOWING HISTORY OF THE

Cathedral Church

IS (BY HIS KIND PERMISSION) RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY

HIS MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT,

THE PUBLISHER.