On the Architectural History of Chester Cathedral

BY THOMAS RICKMAN,

WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR BY THE REV. CANON BLOMFIELD.

The MS. of the following Report by Thomas Rickman, on the Architectural features of Chester Cathedral, has been for many years in the possession of a gentleman in Chester, but has never yet appeared in print.  It is supposed to have been drawn up at the request of Dean Cholmondeley, who was one of Rickman’s early patrons, and the date of it may be fixed at about 1812.  It is therefore probably the earliest specimen of his style of architectural analysis.  As, at the same time, it affords a valuable specimen of the accuracy of his observation, and the clearness of his discriminative judgment, it is thought right to present it to the public, through the medium of the Chester Architectural and Archæological Society.