The Cathedrals of England and Wales1926 |
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Abbot aisles ancient apse arcades Archbishop architect architecture bays beautiful Bishop building built canopies Canterbury central tower chantry Chapter-house Chichester Cathedral choir choir screen choir-aisle clerestory cloisters columns commenced completed crypt Dean Decorated period doorway Early English east end east window eastern aisle eastern limb eastern transept Ely Cathedral England episcopate erected Exeter Exeter Cathedral feature feet fifteenth century four fourteenth century Gloucester Gothic graceful groined King Lady Chapel lancets lantern Late Decorated Lichfield lights Lincoln monks nave noble north side northern octagon opening original Norman Oxford Cathedral period Perpendicular Perpendicular period Peterborough piers pillars portion presbytery present procession path quatrefoil rebuilt remains reredos restored rich Rochester Rochester Cathedral roof screen sculpture shrine slender shafts south aisle south side south transept specimen spire St Alban's St Paul's stained glass stalls stone style thirteenth century tracery transept triforium vaulting wall west end west front Winchester Winchester Cathedral
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Trang 88 - ... cathedral of Western Kent contained the shrines of its primitive bishops, St. Paulinus and St. Ithamar — the latter the first native bishop of the English Church ; besides a tomb more eagerly sought by Canterbury pilgrims, that of St. William of Rochester. He is said to have been a Scottish baker of Perth, who was in the habit of giving every tenth loaf to the poor, and who undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, intending to visit the Canterbury shrine on his way. But on the Watling Street,...
Trang 244 - divers fair copes, of several rich works of crimson satin, embroidered with embossed work of silver, beset all over with cherubim curiously wrought to life. A black cope wrought with gold, with divers images in colours ; four other rich copes and vestments : the richest of all they gave to the king in his progress.
Trang 102 - Illuminations.— Except in the event of some extraordinary occurrence, such as the proclamation of peace after the Crimean War, or the recovery of the Prince of Wales...
Trang 162 - I could hear, namely, that some of it is so antient, totters so much with every gust of wind, looks so like a decay, and seems so near it, that when ever it does fall, all that 'tis likely will be thought strange in it, will be, that it did not fall a hundred years sooner.
Trang 97 - Church/ a Clause was inserted to " suspend a moiety" of the Surveyor's salary, " until the said Church should be finished ; thereby the better to encourage him to finish the same with the utmost diligence and expedition.
Trang 78 - The prevailing regularity of the Early English work is, however, agreeably diversified by the Perpendicular chantries of Bishop Bubwith and Treasurer Sugar; by the almost Renaissance mid-sixteenthcentury pulpit of Bishop Knight, with its inscription from the second chapter of St Paul's Epistle to Timothy; and by the screens which shut off the aisles, so as to form a series of chapels, from the transepts. It has been observed, and with truth, that there is no nave in England in which the eye is so...
Trang 202 - He went out of his bed-chamber into the next room to hear it, seemed well pleased with the sound, and blessed God who had favoured him with life to hear it ; but at the same time observed that it would be his own passing bell ; and retiring into his chamber, he never left it until he was carried to his grave...
Trang 135 - Renard was enormously popular, and from the end of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth centuries many forms of it appenred.
Trang 114 - When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion : then were we like unto them that dream.
Trang 173 - Communion-table there stood a curious piece of stone-work, admired much by strangers and travellers ; a stately screen it was, well wrought, painted and gilt, which rose up as high almost as the roof of the church in a row of three lofty spires, with other lesser spires growing out of each of them, as it is represented...