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Entering under a carved Norman arch, we opened a heavy unlocked door to find the place utterly deserted.

At the east end is a fine Norman arch, blocked until 1841 by a Grecian screen erected in 1717.

A heavy porch shelters the entrance, and above this is a sculptured Norman arch of great antiquity, a Scripture subject being graven upon each stone, that upon the key-block representing the Last Supper.

We want some person capable of representing our mayor standing under the Norman arch of the cathedral.”

“I am not very fond of painting portraits,” he said, “but a mayor is a mayor, and there is something grand in that idea of the Norman arch.”