The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-11
VISITS OLD ENGLISH CHURCHES
Bernard Crosby Describes TYfstorit
Cathedrals and Colleges.

The last letter from Bernard Crosby.
who is seeing England. indicates that
he put in nearly a whole week visit
ing old churches and colleges. He
has now left England and is doing the
continent In his last letter from
July "a, 1905.
MY last letter was from Chester.
Leaving there in the morning went
to Liverpool and spent about six hours
Saw the Walker art gallery and st.
Georges hall. Took q tram car to the
docks and went through one Of Gu
nardss largest steamers the Lucan-
bra. These docks by the way are the
largest in the world; floating quay
2,463 feet long Very interesting to
see the different things exported. From
there went to the New Cathedral
grounds. When finished will ha the
largest in England. saw an ola Gem
etery, est. James down in an old
stone quarry about sixty feet below
the street level.
Left there in the evening Of The
goth arriving in the evening at York
Saturday morning, the 21st. went to
I orkminster, the largest in England,
46S feet long by 222i feet across the
transepts. 1t was built in the year
14VO- me east window Is beautiful.
being 7Sx31 feet. The reredos in this
church is one Of unusual beauty. Also
the carvings in the choir. This choir
above isused for all services, leaving
the nave for use Of large gatherings.
Cromwell used this cathedral for
stabiing his horses on his destruction
crusade. All statues in all cathedrals
were broken up by him.
York is very old place having
walls around it and very narrow
streets. me buildings overhanging
the streets nearly touch at the tops.
Went to old Trinity church, an old
Saxon church one thousand years old.
High back box seats and so forth. The
gate to the wall still has its barbican
AMI portcullis. The streets all have
very queer names, some after the
gates, such as Michlegate, Castlegate,
Watmgate, Onsegate, st. Savioursgate,
Petergate and others. In the after
noon we drove to Bishopthrope and
saw the archbishop's palace. There
are only two arch bishops in England.
We saw him at the door of the palace.
ON Sunday, the 22d, we went to the
10 o clock service at Yorkminster. It
was a big day and the lord mayor of
ork with two judges of the assize
courts and the sheriffs were there all
IN full uniform. The lord mayor and
the judges both wore long white wigs
ana had men along carrying long
sticks. In the afternoon we walked
through the gardens and saw the ruins
OF St Mary's abbey. (Saxon date) and
also took a row up the river Onse
on Monday, the sd, we left York
early for Lincoln, arriving there at 9.
W CuL 10 the CaEneQE&i which Is one OF
the t1nest decorated in England. The
carvings of different periods are won
derful, and the choir with the angels
carved in the stone pillars make a very
impressive scene. It is called the angel
choir. Like York the king Of cathe-
dals, so is Lincoln the queen For it
takes money to decorate the queen the
verger told US. The front of this ca
tnedrel IS the most beautiful I've seen.
we then went to an old castle with
very high walls and through its prison
and beautiful gardens.
The bridge across the Witham is
worthy Of mention with shops on one
side, making 1t looks like a street. Left
Lincoln at noon and went to Peterbor-
ough. In the afternoon to the Peter
borough cathedral (1140). 1t was here
Bishop Mfllspaugh was entertained
while abroad. The present cathedral
stands on ground used by a former
Saxon church. It is a beautiful build
ing and in the choir some very pretty
mosaic work. In the evening we left
Peterborough going to Ely, large ca
thedral with one Of its towers destroy
ed. The nave Of this cathedral is the
longest of any, being 208 feet long. The
octagon shaped tower or lantern Is
beautiful, also the wood painted roofs.
The lady chapel is very pretty with
lot of very fine carvings. There was
nothing in the town of special interest
SO we didn't stay long.
I'VE went to Cambridge at noon
which is a very interesting and attrac-
tive place. There are 10 colleges here,
not quite SO many as at oxford, but I
believe it's the prettiest of the two
places. Oxford has prettier spots, but
Cambridge seems to have more wealth
and finer buildings; then here they are
located better. most of them being on
one long avenue with the Cam river to
the rear. The city is a very progress
siye place and has some beautiful
shops with all kinds of trinkets to
tempt one. The town has 10000 peo-
pie. Our hotel Blue Boar hotel 1756)
IS very attractive with a court and con-
servatory in the center, glass covered.
1 might say again that that nearly ev-
cry English home has a garden with
boxes IN every window and lots of ivy
1T might be well to get map of
Cambridge and then you can imagine
how 1t might look and how the river
and streams add to its beauty; on the
The chapel in Kings college
alone took 100 years to build. Magda-
lene college is the first on the street,
then St. Johns, Cam, Clare, Kings and
Queens, Kings being the grandest and
largest, then Trinity and St. Johns.
Each has bridge over the Cam with
gardens and tennis courts between. On
the other side Of the Cam tthe grass
being terraced to the Water) are beau
tiful parks with smaller streams rum
ming through them: then a long beau
tfful road On the other side of which
are more gardens and cricket grounds.
Farther down the river are the boat
houses, each college having one with
a beautiful stream for the races.
Another thing that made Cam
bridge look better than oxford was
that we saw a good many of the boys
as there is a short term going on now.
AT one college we saw ten tennis games
all going on at once. And as the boys
all wear suits of many colors it is a
very pretty sight. Sunday we go on the
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