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ELY CATHEDRAL—THE OCTAGON.
Ely Cathedral
GROUND PLAN OF THE CHOIR.
Ground Plan of the Choir of Ely Cathedral.
The first three bays are in the Decorated style, about the same dateas the Octagon (1337-1361). The Norman bays which they replaced wereinjured by the fall of the central Tower in 1322. The six eastern bays(the Presbytery) are in the Early English Style, and were built byBishop Northwold (1235-1252).
Having entered the South aisle of the Choir by the iron gate marked 1on the plan, and passed, on the right, the monuments of Bishop Allen,and the Stewards, we come to 2. Bishop de Luda's monument (1298)restored on the north side by Dean Peacock. 3. Bishop Barnet's tomb(1373). 4. Tomb of John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, and his two wives(1470). 5. Tomb of Bishop Hotham (1337) who left money for therebuilding of the three Decorated bays of the Choir. 6. On the southside of the aisle is the monument erected in 1879 to Canon Selwyn. 7.Bishop West's Chapel, built about 1534, containing the graves ofBishops West, Keene, and Sparke, and on the south side the remains ofseven benefactors of the monastery removed from the Conventual Churchin 1154; and built in the north wall is the tomb of Cardinal deLuxemburg, Bishop of Ely, who died 1443. 8. In the Retro-Choir is thetomb of Dr. Mill, Canon of Ely, and Regius Professor of Hebrew atCambridge, who died in 1853. 9. Grave of Bishop and Mrs. Allen (1845).10. The east wall on which are traces of painting of which no accountcan be given. 11. Bishop Alcock's Chapel, containing his grave; hedied in 1500; he was founder of Jesus College, Cambridge. 12. Tomb ofBishop Northwold, founder of the Presbytery, who was Abbot of Burybefore he became Bishop of Ely; died in 1254. 13. The monumentformerly placed over Bishop Hotham's tomb, but supposed to be part ofthe shrine of St. Etheldreda as adapted by Alan de Walsingham. 14.Tomb of Bishop Kilkenny (1250).