A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Litchfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, Peterborough, Canterbury, Rochester, London, Winchester, Chichester, Norwich, Salisbury, Wells, Exeter, St. Davids, Landaff, Bangor, and St. Asaph : containing an history of their foundations, builders, antient monuments, and inscriptions, endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages ... : with an exact account of all the churches and chapels in each diocese, distinguished under their proper archdeaconries and deanries, to what saints dedicated, who patrons of them, and to what religious houses appropriated : the whole extracted from numerous collections out of the registers of every particular see ... : and illustrated with thirty-two curious draughts ... : in three volumes
Browne Willis's three-volume antiquarian survey of the English and Welsh cathedrals, printed in London and Dublin in 1742 for clergy, genealogists and church antiquaries. Engraved ground plans of cathedrals with lettered chapels and shaded piers sit alongside woodcut headpieces of scrolling acanthus, seated putti, eagles and flower baskets, useful as measured architectural diagrams and as horizontal ornament bands.
