Handbook to the Cathedrals of England. Western Division, Band 1Murray, 1903 - 351 Seiten |
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... light and graceful tracery of the parapets , and of the pinnacles of the tower , is that which gives especial character to the exterior of Gloucester . Against a clear , mid - day sky this open - work is sufficiently striking ; but when.
... light and graceful tracery of the parapets , and of the pinnacles of the tower , is that which gives especial character to the exterior of Gloucester . Against a clear , mid - day sky this open - work is sufficiently striking ; but when.
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... lights which extended beyond the triforium arches , with the wall between them , were allowed to remain . The jambs of these Norman lights , with zigzag moulding , may still be traced in each bay of the clerestory . The windows of the ...
... lights which extended beyond the triforium arches , with the wall between them , were allowed to remain . The jambs of these Norman lights , with zigzag moulding , may still be traced in each bay of the clerestory . The windows of the ...
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... light porous stone , is plastered on the under- side . The vaulting - shafts , ( of the same date as the roof , ) in groups of three , are of Purbeck marble , with stone capitals of leafage , and Purbeck abaci . These rest on a series ...
... light porous stone , is plastered on the under- side . The vaulting - shafts , ( of the same date as the roof , ) in groups of three , are of Purbeck marble , with stone capitals of leafage , and Purbeck abaci . These rest on a series ...
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... lights . This peculiarity is repeated in the great east , and in some other windows . ) The glass is of unusually pictorial character ; and if not entirely successful , is at least better than some recent attempts in a similar direction ...
... lights . This peculiarity is repeated in the great east , and in some other windows . ) The glass is of unusually pictorial character ; and if not entirely successful , is at least better than some recent attempts in a similar direction ...
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... light choir - roof are seen ; and the superb glass of the east window terminates the choir with such a glow of colour as few other cathedrals can display . VI . The north aisle of the nave is , like the nave it . self , Norman , except ...
... light choir - roof are seen ; and the superb glass of the east window terminates the choir with such a glow of colour as few other cathedrals can display . VI . The north aisle of the nave is , like the nave it . self , Norman , except ...
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Abbot altar altered ancient angles APPENDIX apse arcade Archbishop Berkeley Bishop of Worcester BRISTOL CATHEDRAL Canon canopy Canterbury Cantilupe capitals central tower century chantry chapel chapter-house character choir choir-screen church clerestory cloister colour consecrated crypt Dean Decorated Decorated period died diocese Early English east window eastern Edward effigy England enriched episcopal figures foliage G. G. SCOTT Gloucester GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL Godwin groined Henry HEREFORD CATHEDRAL interred JOHN King Lady-chapel leafage Lichfield Lichfield Cathedral Mercia monastery monks monument mouldings nave Norman arch north aisle north side north transept noticed original ornament Oxford panels Perpendicular piers placed Plate porch portion presbytery Professor Willis rebuilt recess remains removed reredos restored rich Richard roof Salisbury screen sculptured shafts shrine south aisle south choir-aisle south side spandrils stained glass stone Thomas Thomas Cantilupe tomb tracery trans transition Norman translated triforium vaulting vaulting-shafts wall west front William Worcester Cathedral Wulfstan
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Seite 217 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did...
Seite 216 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Seite 221 - Trinity," in answer to some parts of Locke's Essay. [AD 1699 — 1717.] WILLIAM LLOYD, translated from Lichfield. In 1680 he had been consecrated to the see of St. Asaph, and was one of the seven bishops sent to the Tower by James II. He...
Seite 56 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and...
Seite 55 - where," says Fuller, " he got by his restraint what he could never have got by his liberty, namely, of one reputed Popish to become for a short time popular, as the only confessor suffering for not subscribing the Canons'.
Seite 222 - Puritans," under the title of, " A Vindication of the Government, Doctrine, and Worship of the Church of England, established in the reign of queen Elizabeth :" of which the late bishop Hallifax said, " a better vindication of the reformed church of England, I never read.
Seite 282 - Lichfield enjoyed a sad pre-eminence during the civil war, — "... when fanatic Brooke The fair cathedral spoiled and took ; Though thanks to heaven and good St. Chad, A guerdon meet the spoiler had.
Seite 269 - Nothing but this principle, that they are liable to insanity equally at least with private persons, can account for the major part of those transactions of which we read in history.
Seite xiv - Then came the fire on the upper part of the steeple, and burned all the monastery, and all the treasures that were there within, except a few books and three mass-robes.
Seite 57 - ... impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant', he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade.