bisse

Updated: July 24, 2025

Towards the beginning of the eighteenth century much harm was done to the cathedral by the zeal of Bishop Bisse, one of those irritating people who mean well but act abominably. He spent much, both on the palace and the cathedral, employing in the alterations of the former the stones of the chapter-house, which had been doubtless much injured but not irreparably so.

A. Hugh (Alfred Hugh) Fisher - Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description: Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See

The next day in the sunshine he walked the Bisse again with those dreams like trailing mists in his mind, and by comparison the path of the Bisse was nothing, it was like walking along a kerbstone, it was an exercise for young ladies.... In his younger days Benham had regarded Fear as a shameful secret and as a thing to be got rid of altogether.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Research Magnificent