power to get out of the scrape.

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BRISTOL CATHEDRAL.


[Illustration: BRISTOL CATHEDRAL.]

An Augustinian monastery, founded by Robert Fitzhardinge in 1142, had
its church, of Norman architecture, to which additions were made in
the early English period. When Edmund Knowle was abbot, from 1306 to
1332, the Norman choir was replaced by that which now exists. His
successor, Abbot Snow, built the chapels on the south side of the
choir. Abbot Newland, between 1481 and 1515, enriched the transepts
with a groined roof and with ornamental work of the decorated Gothic
style, and erected the central tower. Abbot Elliott, who followed
Newland, removed the Norman nave and aisles, intending to rebuild
them; but this was prevented by his death in 1526 and by the
dissolution of the monastery a few years afterward; he completed,
however, the vaulting of the south transept. The church remained with
a nave, and otherwise incomplete, until the modern restorations; after
which, in 1877, it was reopened with a special service. Messrs. Pope &
Bindon, of Bristol, were the architects employed. The exterior, of
which we give an illustration, viewed from St. Augustine's Green, or
Upper College Green, is not very imposing; from the Lower Green there
is a good view of the central tower and the transept. The height of