Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library, nurturing his obsession with the Holy Grail and researching his perennially unfinished guidebook to the medieval cathedral. Here he works to uncover a long-lost secret about the cathedral's past and its connections to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library, nurturing his obsession with the Holy Grail and researching his perennially unfinished guidebook to the medieval cathedral. Increasingly, he feels like a fish out of water among the concrete buildings of the University of Barchester, where … From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman's Tale comes a new novel about an obsessive bibliophile's quest through time to discover a missing manuscript, the unknown history of an English Cathedral, and the secret of the Holy Grail Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library. Increasingly, he feels like a fish out of water among the concrete buildings of the University of Barchester, where he works as an English professor. Barchester Towers is not one of them. Our knowledge of the Library is partial but a reasonable number of books can be traced back as far as the late 12th century. Rochester Cathedral has held a library since the establishment of the Benedictine Priory in 1082. Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library. The Lost Book of the Grail, Or, A Visitors Guide to Barchester Cathedral (eBook) : Lovett, Charles C. : "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman's Tale comes a new novel about an obsessive bibliophile's quest through time to discover a missing manuscript, the unknown history of an English Cathedral, and the secret of the Holy Grail. Increasingly, he feels like a fish out of water among the concrete buildings of the University of Barchester, where he works as an English professor. Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library. It will be useful, at this point, to summarise Barchester Towers - remaining aware that summary cannot capture Trollope’s easy-going, clubman, humour: The novel opens with the cathedral’s bishop dying and his son, Archdeacon Theophilus Grantly, mourning by his bed. The Library also has some intriguing stained glass windows and unusually well-preserved stone corbels. By the time of writing of … The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral by M.R. This matter began, as far as I am concerned, with the reading of a notice in the obituary section of the Gentleman’s Magazine for an early year in the nineteenth century: ... Quite lately I was cataloguing the manuscripts in the library of the college to which he belonged. Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library. Employed by a mega-rich American collecting Biblical artifacts to house in a Bible museum he intends to build this young woman is in Barchester to digitize the medieval manuscripts in the library and make them available free online. Now a young American woman arrives at the cathedral and invades Arthur's sanctuary, the cathedral library. James. Deep in the inner sanctum of Chichester Cathedral, on its north side and above the Treasury, is the Cathedral Library. But his grief is contaminated by ambition. 54 likes. Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral Library, a refuge from the University of Barchester, where he teaches English. Rochester Cathedral Library. Novel.