Simon KnottAn unusual memorial to John Wareing Bardsley, 59th Bishop of Carlisle, in the Cathedral. It's by the sculptor Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, 1906. 'A strange bronze tablet, as if cut out in leather', thought @YalePevsner.
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2/3 Harvey Goodwin, 58th Bishop of Carlisle, by Hamo Thorneycroft, 1894. When I was a paper boy half a century ago Harvey Goodwin Avenue in Cambridge, where he's remembered for the Industrial School he founded, was on my round. And here he is in a far northern city.
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Samuel Waldegrave, 57th Bishop of Carlisle, by John Adams-Acton, 1874. Waldegrave was a renowned firebrand evangelical of the kind then already going out of fashion. One obituary noted 'Never were the tones of his softly-breathed words in the pulpit so affecting as when he spoke of the poor sinner!'
