Most of the illustrations appear for the first time in this book. They are reproduced, by kind permission, from pen-drawings by Messrs. H. P. Clifford and R. J. Beale, and from photographs by Messrs. Horace Dan, J. L. Allen, F. G. M. Beaumont, and Messrs. Carl Norman and Co., of Tunbridge Wells.
Thanks are also due to the Very Rev. the Dean, the Rev. E. J. Nash, Mr. George Payne, F.S.A., and Mr. S. S. Brister, for kindnesses and helpful suggestions, as also to the head-verger, Mr. Miles, who, having been connected with the fabric for more than half a century, has a personal knowledge of its history during that time.
PAGE CHAPTER I.--The History of the Cathedral 3
CHAPTER II.--The Exterior 38 Tower and Bells 39 West Front 43 West Doorway 46 Nave and Main Transept 50 Choir and Gundulf's Tower 52 Monastic Buildings 55 Bishop's Palace 57 Enclosure and Gates 59
CHAPTER III.--The Interior 63 Nave 63 Lady Chapel 70 Main Transept 70 Font, Pulpit, and Stalls 75 Monuments and Slabs 76 Stained Glass 78 North Choir Aisle 81 Organ 81 Choir Screen 83 Choir and Choir Transept 83 Pavement 88 Stalls 89 Paintings 90, 92 Bishop's Throne 91 Pulpit and Lectern 93 Altar and Sedilia 94 Communion Plate 95 Monuments 96 Stained Glass 105 Chapter House Doorway 107 Chapter House and Library 108 South Choir Aisle 112 Crypt 115
PAGE The South Transept, from the south-east _Frontispiece_
North side of the Cathedral in the Seventeenth Century 14
North-west view, early Eighteenth Century 26
North-west view, early Nineteenth Century 31
North-east view, with ruins of Gundulf's Tower 41
Capitals from the North side of the West door 46
Capitals from the South side of the West door 47
The new Chapter-Room and the ruins of the old 56
The ruins of the Cloisters, East range 57
A Doorway inserted in the old Roman Wall 59
The Prior's Gate and old Grammar School, 1825 60
Decorated Capital, South Arcade of Nave 68
One Bay of Norman work in the Nave (South Arcade) 70
A Corbel in the Choir (by the Bishop's Throne) 88
Tracery of a Window near the Chapter-House door 90
A Corbel in the Choir (middle of North Wall) 91
The Wheel of Fortune, a fresco painting 93
The Tombs of Bishops G. de Glanvill and L. de St. Martin 104
The Crypt, looking towards the North-east 113