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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... already a body of secular priests attached to the church of Saint Andrew . The whole history of Wells before the time of Eadward the Elder is excessively obscure , and much of it is undoubtedly fabulous . There is a story about King Ine ...
... already a body of secular priests attached to the church of Saint Andrew . The whole history of Wells before the time of Eadward the Elder is excessively obscure , and much of it is undoubtedly fabulous . There is a story about King Ine ...
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... the church seem not to have been large . The ceremony which happened among us last week may make some of you ask whether the canons of Saint Andrew had already the right of electing the Bishop . This is a 24 HISTORY OF THE.
... the church seem not to have been large . The ceremony which happened among us last week may make some of you ask whether the canons of Saint Andrew had already the right of electing the Bishop . This is a 24 HISTORY OF THE.
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... already said , while speaking of Robert's building at Bath , that our two chief accounts , earlier and later , do not exactly agree as to the extent of his works at either place . The earlier account seems to assert a complete re ...
... already said , while speaking of Robert's building at Bath , that our two chief accounts , earlier and later , do not exactly agree as to the extent of his works at either place . The earlier account seems to assert a complete re ...
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... already said , by the fall of the vault in 1248 . Still , notwithstanding all these smaller differences , the whole work , except the west front , is essentially in one style , and is evidently built from one general design . And though ...
... already said , by the fall of the vault in 1248 . Still , notwithstanding all these smaller differences , the whole work , except the west front , is essentially in one style , and is evidently built from one general design . And though ...
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... already men- tioned , and with which we are all familiar , between Residentiary and Non - residentiary Canons . All the old capitular bodies were framed upon one general model , the essential features of which they retain to this day ...
... already men- tioned , and with which we are all familiar , between Residentiary and Non - residentiary Canons . All the old capitular bodies were framed upon one general model , the essential features of which they retain to this day ...
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Abbey Abbot ancient Anglia Sacra apse arches architectural bays became Bishop of Bath Bishop Robert Bishoprick building built called cathedral church central tower century changes Chapter Chapter-house choir church of Bath church of Saint clerestory clergy cloister College congé d'élire corporation Crown 8vo Dean Deanery diocese distinct Duduc duties Eadward eastern limb ecclesias ecclesiastical Edition England English episcopate estates Exeter Extra fcap fabric Fcap finished Gisa Gisa's Glastonbury Godwin height Hereford high altar Historiola Jocelin John of Tours King Lady chapel land lectures Lichfield Llandaff look minster monastery monastic monks nave Non-residentiary Canons offices Old Foundation palace POEMS Prebendaries prebends Precentor presbytery present priests Professor Willis Ralph of Shrewsbury refectory reign residence Residentiaries Romanesque Saint Andrew Salisbury secular canons Somersetshire style suppression thing tion transept Translated triforium vault Vicars west front West-Saxons western towers whole William Winchester
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