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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... central , was not built till some ages later . Glastonbury , which is more central still , could not well be made the Bishoprick , because it was the seat of the greatest monastery of the West . Also Glastonbury was in those days a ...
... central , was not built till some ages later . Glastonbury , which is more central still , could not well be made the Bishoprick , because it was the seat of the greatest monastery of the West . Also Glastonbury was in those days a ...
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... central than Wells , being , as we all know , quite in a corner of the diocese . The Abbey of Bath was just then vacant by the death of the Abbot Ælfsige , an Englishman who had contrived to keep his office all through the reign of ...
... central than Wells , being , as we all know , quite in a corner of the diocese . The Abbey of Bath was just then vacant by the death of the Abbot Ælfsige , an Englishman who had contrived to keep his office all through the reign of ...
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... the western limb , was under the central tower , the usual place for it in Norman minsters . It has indeed struck me that what Robert did was perhaps mainly to rebuild and enlarge the choir and presbytery , -a 68 HISTORY OF THE.
... the western limb , was under the central tower , the usual place for it in Norman minsters . It has indeed struck me that what Robert did was perhaps mainly to rebuild and enlarge the choir and presbytery , -a 68 HISTORY OF THE.
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... central tower . Of these I shall have to speak further on . I speak of differences of style in the original fabric itself . The west front , within and without , differs widely in its architectural detail from the arcades of the nave ...
... central tower . Of these I shall have to speak further on . I speak of differences of style in the original fabric itself . The west front , within and without , differs widely in its architectural detail from the arcades of the nave ...
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... central tower . By this time then the presbytery , the tower - choir , and the transepts must all have been finished , together with at least one or two bays of the nave , to form at once a constructive abutment to the tower and a ...
... central tower . By this time then the presbytery , the tower - choir , and the transepts must all have been finished , together with at least one or two bays of the nave , to form at once a constructive abutment to the tower and a ...
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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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