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136 136 ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. Part II. form towards which the arcliitects were tending during the whole of the Middle Ages, and it may consequently be considered as the type at which they were aiming, though hardly the one to which we can give 57J. Octagon at Ely Cathedial. (From Muiray's "CatUtdial Handbook. the most unqualified praise. The nave was erected between the years 1291 and 1331, the choir between 1361 and 1405 ; the length internally is 486 ft. ; the width of the choir, 100 ft. ; of the navelo6 ft. ; both these last were, unfortunately, dimensions which the architects did