History of the Cathedral Church of Wells: As Illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old FoundationMacmillan, 1870 - 200 pages |
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... ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF. UNDERCROFT OF CHAPTER HOUSE TOWER . CHOIR . PRESBYTERY LADY CHAPEL . 13TH CENTY IN LOCAL STYLE . 13TH CENTY WORK CLO 1 STER 14 " " 15TH 19 " 3 LECTURE I .. LECTURE II . LECTURE III . NOTES.
... ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF. UNDERCROFT OF CHAPTER HOUSE TOWER . CHOIR . PRESBYTERY LADY CHAPEL . 13TH CENTY IN LOCAL STYLE . 13TH CENTY WORK CLO 1 STER 14 " " 15TH 19 " 3 LECTURE I .. LECTURE II . LECTURE III . NOTES.
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... Lady chapel , choir , chapter - house , all join to form one indivisible whole . The series goes on uninterruptedly along that unique bridge which by a marvel of ingenuity con- nects the church itself with the most perfect of build ...
... Lady chapel , choir , chapter - house , all join to form one indivisible whole . The series goes on uninterruptedly along that unique bridge which by a marvel of ingenuity con- nects the church itself with the most perfect of build ...
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... Lady Eadgyth - remember that the proper title of the wife of a West - Saxon King was not Queen but Lady - gave him Mark and Mudgeley ; William the Conqueror gave him the dis- puted lordships of Banwell and Winesham , and he bought Combe ...
... Lady Eadgyth - remember that the proper title of the wife of a West - Saxon King was not Queen but Lady - gave him Mark and Mudgeley ; William the Conqueror gave him the dis- puted lordships of Banwell and Winesham , and he bought Combe ...
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... Lady chapel and the other small eastern chapels , with the Chapter - house and the tops of the towers , we have as yet nothing to do . Now within these limits , that is , between the west door and the Bishop's throne , I think that ...
... Lady chapel and the other small eastern chapels , with the Chapter - house and the tops of the towers , we have as yet nothing to do . Now within these limits , that is , between the west door and the Bishop's throne , I think that ...
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... Lady chapel , of which the traces may easily be seen , but which was rebuilt late in the fifteenth century and wholly destroyed in the sixteenth . Now that the cloister was first built at this time is plain , as all the outer walls ...
... Lady chapel , of which the traces may easily be seen , but which was rebuilt late in the fifteenth century and wholly destroyed in the sixteenth . Now that the cloister was first built at this time is plain , as all the outer walls ...
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Abbey Abbot ancient Anglia Sacra apse arches architectural bays Bishop of Bath Bishop Robert Bishoprick body building built called capitular cathedral cathedral church central tower century changes Chapter Chapter-house choir church of Saint clergy cloister College corporation Crown 8vo Dean Deanery diocese Duduc duties east end eastern limb ecclesiæ ecclesiastical Edward election England English estates Exeter Extra fcap fabric Fcap finished Gisa Gisa's Glastonbury Godwin Henry Hereford high altar Historiola Jocelin John of Tours King Lady chapel land lectures Lichfield Llandaff look minster monastery Monasticon monks nave non-residentiary Canons offices Old Foundation palace POEMS Pope Prebendaries prebends Precentor presbytery present priests Professor Willis Ralph of Shrewsbury reign residence Residentiaries Robert Burnell Romanesque Saint Andrew Saint David's Salisbury secular canons Somersetshire style suppressed thing transept Translated vault Vicars west front western towers whole William William of Malmesbury Winchester
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