HARVARD COLLEGE NOV 27 1911 LIBRARY Treat fund LONDON: THE ECCLESIOLOGIST. "Surge igitur et fac: et erit Dominus tecum." No. LXI. — AUGUST, 1847. (NEW SERIES, NO. XXV.) ON THE ECCLESIOLOGY OF CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL AND THE NEIGHBOURING CHURCHES. [We do not pledge ourselves to the theory contained in this very interesting paper.-ED.] ONE very interesting branch of ecclesiological study is to observe the peculiarities of particular districts: and it is probable that, if this were carefully done, a much nearer approximation might be made, than one would have suspected a priori, towards forming a well-defined ecclesiological map of the whole country. The difficulty would be to express the characteristics of the several districts; for, of course, these would be of a somewhat more subtle nature than those broader ones of material and structure, which are all that an unpractised eye finds to distinguish the churches of one country or diocese from those of its neighbour. On first entering upon a district with which we have had no previous acquaintance, we are sure to be met by some feature or arrangement interfering with our previously conceived ecclesiological creed; and it is only when the recurrence of the heterodox phenomenon in a dozen different churches in the neighbourhood has led us to the conclusion that that creed had been formed, in this particular, too rigidly, that we begin to appreciate in some degree the marvellousness of that glorious craft, which wrought, on the whole, with such a uniformity of operation throughout the breadth and length of the land simultaneously, that, as a general rule, we expect,-confidently expect, and generally without being disappointed,-to find the work of any given period exhibiting the self-same features in the most widely remote localities. The lover of church-architecture, who takes it in hand to make the tour of the neighbourhood of Chichester, can scarcely be said to be repaid by any great degree of beauty or variety in the churches within easy reach of that city. He runs some risk of being wearied with the |