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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... cloister cannot measure itself with Gloucester or Salisbury ; the chapter - house lacks the soaring . roofs of York and Lincoln ; the palace itself finds its rival in the ruined pile of Saint David's . The peculiar charm and glory of ...
... cloister cannot measure itself with Gloucester or Salisbury ; the chapter - house lacks the soaring . roofs of York and Lincoln ; the palace itself finds its rival in the ruined pile of Saint David's . The peculiar charm and glory of ...
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... cloister or refectory . This means that they did not live in common , but lived , after the manner of English ... cloister . In a monastery the cloister is one of the most important parts of the building ; it is the centre of everything ...
... cloister or refectory . This means that they did not live in common , but lived , after the manner of English ... cloister . In a monastery the cloister is one of the most important parts of the building ; it is the centre of everything ...
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... cloister is a necessity ; in a secular church it is a luxury , a thing which may be very well left alone . In our secular churches therefore we some- times find a cloister and sometimes not , and , when there was one , it might be built ...
... cloister is a necessity ; in a secular church it is a luxury , a thing which may be very well left alone . In our secular churches therefore we some- times find a cloister and sometimes not , and , when there was one , it might be built ...
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... cloister , a refectory , and whatever other buildings were needed for his purpose , and made the Canons live after the Lotharingian fashion . As their chief officer he ap- pointed one Isaac , one of their own body , and whom they ...
... cloister , a refectory , and whatever other buildings were needed for his purpose , and made the Canons live after the Lotharingian fashion . As their chief officer he ap- pointed one Isaac , one of their own body , and whom they ...
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... cloister , refectory , and dormitory close to the church , just as they would be in a monastery . There- fore , if John built his house on their site , it must have been much nearer to the church than the present palace is . Nothing is ...
... cloister , refectory , and dormitory close to the church , just as they would be in a monastery . There- fore , if John built his house on their site , it must have been much nearer to the church than the present palace is . Nothing is ...
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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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