cancellus

Updated: May 29, 2025

And yet it is hard to fix the date of the work with any exactness. It had apparently not begun in 1286, for a mandate of Archbishop Romanus in that year begins Cancellus Rypon' ruinosus reparetur; but it may have been completed before the irruption of the Scots in 1318.

Cecil Walter Charles Hallett - Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon: A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric