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%Q GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL.
The following interesting account of the wliff-
pering place, from the manuscript numbered 243
in the late Mr. Ayscough's Catalogue, Britifh
Museum, is the ingenious production of Mr.
Henry Powle.
" The Cathedral in Gloucester hath on either
iide the choir an aile, and at the upper end a
very fair chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Into this there is an entrance behind the high
altar, under a spacious arch ; and over the arch
stands another little chapel, or cell, consecrated
to one of the Aposttes. The ailes are divided,
by arches of stone, into two stories. From the
ssoor to the uppermost of these there is a narrow
passage, leading behind the Eastern window os
the choir, and by the side of this little chapel, to
the same ssoor of the other aile. This passage or
entry, so famous by the name of the Whispering-
place, contains, in breadth about three feet, and
in height six and a quarter ; save only on the side-
adjoining to the little chapel, where it riseth to
be eight feet and about four inches high. The
figure of it is the half of an irregular polygon,
neither sides nor angles corresponding to one an-
other. It consists wholly of free-stone, the roof
being covered with a ssat stone of the same
breadth with the ssoor, but so unevenly wrought
..... . . that
The following interesting account of the wliff-
pering place, from the manuscript numbered 243
in the late Mr. Ayscough's Catalogue, Britifh
Museum, is the ingenious production of Mr.
Henry Powle.
" The Cathedral in Gloucester hath on either
iide the choir an aile, and at the upper end a
very fair chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Into this there is an entrance behind the high
altar, under a spacious arch ; and over the arch
stands another little chapel, or cell, consecrated
to one of the Aposttes. The ailes are divided,
by arches of stone, into two stories. From the
ssoor to the uppermost of these there is a narrow
passage, leading behind the Eastern window os
the choir, and by the side of this little chapel, to
the same ssoor of the other aile. This passage or
entry, so famous by the name of the Whispering-
place, contains, in breadth about three feet, and
in height six and a quarter ; save only on the side-
adjoining to the little chapel, where it riseth to
be eight feet and about four inches high. The
figure of it is the half of an irregular polygon,
neither sides nor angles corresponding to one an-
other. It consists wholly of free-stone, the roof
being covered with a ssat stone of the same
breadth with the ssoor, but so unevenly wrought
..... . . that