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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... finished , the old one was pulled down and the new used instead . It is therefore quite possible that our present cathe- dral does not stand quite on the same site as the church which was standing in Gisa and John's time . But on the ...
... finished , the old one was pulled down and the new used instead . It is therefore quite possible that our present cathe- dral does not stand quite on the same site as the church which was standing in Gisa and John's time . But on the ...
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... finished the church of Bath , if he did not actually rebuild it from the ground . I speak thus doubtingly , because our accounts do not exactly agree . The little book called " Historiola de Primordiis Episcopatûs Somersetensis 46 ...
... finished the church of Bath , if he did not actually rebuild it from the ground . I speak thus doubtingly , because our accounts do not exactly agree . The little book called " Historiola de Primordiis Episcopatûs Somersetensis 46 ...
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... finished the fabric of the church of Bath which had been begun by John of Tours . " ( 7 ) Now the " Historiola " is the earlier authority , and that which we should generally believe rather than the other , when- ever there is any ...
... finished the fabric of the church of Bath which had been begun by John of Tours . " ( 7 ) Now the " Historiola " is the earlier authority , and that which we should generally believe rather than the other , when- ever there is any ...
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... finishing touches to the capitular constitution devised by Robert , and he also began another of our institutions which has lasted to our own time , I mean that of the Vicars . With regard to the fabric , I now come upon ground which ...
... finishing touches to the capitular constitution devised by Robert , and he also began another of our institutions which has lasted to our own time , I mean that of the Vicars . With regard to the fabric , I now come upon ground which ...
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... finished , during the long episcopate of Jocelin . That episcopate reached over twenty- four years from the settlement of the Glastonbury controversy , over thirty - six from Jocelin's first conse- cration . That any part of the church ...
... finished , during the long episcopate of Jocelin . That episcopate reached over twenty- four years from the settlement of the Glastonbury controversy , over thirty - six from Jocelin's first conse- cration . That any part of the church ...
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