...CATHEDRAL. BY THE REV. R. WILLIS, MA, FRS, &cJACKSONIAN PROFESSOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. I\ this history I propose to follow the same plan which...well known volume, and the able and copious work of Mimer contains every' particular that can be required for the second. But still it appeared to me that...

...says Mr. Clark, ' which Professor Willis followed in his architectural histories of cathedrals was to bring together all the recorded evidence that belongs...with the structural evidence as much as possible." (Introd. p. xcii.) Precisely the same methods of enquiry have been pursued in the history of the colleges....

...itself for the purpose of investigating the mode of its construction, III.] HISTORY OF SITE. xciii and the successive changes and additions that have...recorded evidence with the structural evidence as much as possible1." This plan, as noted in the first chapter of this introduction, has been followed in the...

...Cathedral' (1846), was 'to bring together all the recorded evidence that belongs to the building ; to examine the building itself for the purpose of...with the structural evidence as much as possible.' By this comprehensive scheme he laid bare the entire history of the structure ; the history was elucidated...