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... building . Much as we are apt to boast of the wisdom , learning , taste , enlightened piety and happy freedom from superstition of the present day , it is to be feared that the unreformed Church must , in this one point at least , be ...
... building . Much as we are apt to boast of the wisdom , learning , taste , enlightened piety and happy freedom from superstition of the present day , it is to be feared that the unreformed Church must , in this one point at least , be ...
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... building was afterwards commenced ; but one of stone was then built into the wall , with this in- scription in rude Roman and Anglo - Saxon charac- ters on the base : Hanc ecclesiam in honore sancte Winifride et sancte Marie Virginis ...
... building was afterwards commenced ; but one of stone was then built into the wall , with this in- scription in rude Roman and Anglo - Saxon charac- ters on the base : Hanc ecclesiam in honore sancte Winifride et sancte Marie Virginis ...
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... and entirely refounded towards the close of the eleventh century , so that no part of the origi- nal building remained . Though the new lord of the manor had no power to interfere with or in 10 THE CHURCH RESTORERS . THE MONASTERY.
... and entirely refounded towards the close of the eleventh century , so that no part of the origi- nal building remained . Though the new lord of the manor had no power to interfere with or in 10 THE CHURCH RESTORERS . THE MONASTERY.
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... build him a castle . Furthermore- ” " Your good lord hath freely the presentation of the said rectory from us , good brother , for your- self to hold , or whomsoever his lordship shall care to appoint to the same . And for the other mat ...
... build him a castle . Furthermore- ” " Your good lord hath freely the presentation of the said rectory from us , good brother , for your- self to hold , or whomsoever his lordship shall care to appoint to the same . And for the other mat ...
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... building , and had been in great part rebuilt about thirty years before . The style was the early pointed , which was in use about the year 1200 ; not exuberant in orna- mental detail , nor very light and graceful in its proportions ...
... building , and had been in great part rebuilt about thirty years before . The style was the early pointed , which was in use about the year 1200 ; not exuberant in orna- mental detail , nor very light and graceful in its proportions ...
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Abbat abbey adorned aisles Alban Butler ancient architect arms beautiful Bishop blessed body brass BRITISH BIRDS building Cambridge Camden Society canopy Carter carved castle Cathedral chancel chancel arch chasuble churchyard coloured Comparative Anatomy cross Decorated door EDWARD NEWMAN effigy Engravings erected Etheldreda Ewerby faith feeling feet foliage Francis Gothic grave Grecian ground hagioscope hand head holy hundred Illustrations JOHN VAN VOORST Lady lancet Letherton lordshyp marble ment miracles Miss Merton modern monastery monument mouldings nave once open seats ornaments painted parish church parishioners PATERNOSTER ROW pavement perhaps piscina plaister Popery prayer present priest Protestantism pues pulpit Rector Reformation relics remained roof Royal 8vo Saint Saxon screen sedilia seemed seen shew side Sir Aubrey slab spandrils Squire stained glass stained windows stood style tion tomb tower Vesica Piscis village VOORST walls Wardley Wilkinson WILLIAM YARRELL wood wooden
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Page 48 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Page 187 - And graciously hear us, that those evils, which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, be brought to nought; and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed ; that we thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church ; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Page 187 - O Almighty God, who art the giver of all health, and the aid of them that seek to thee for succour, we call upon thee for thy help and goodness mercifully to be shewed upon these thy servants, that they being healed of their infirmities, may give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 189 - My lord, I humbly commend my selfe unto your lordshyp, the laste I wrote unto your lordshyp was the xxth daye of thys present monith by the handes of Mr. Wyliamson, by the whych I advertised your lordshyp of the lengthe and greatenes of thys churche, and how we had begon to pull the hole down to the ground, and what maner and fashion they used in pulling it down. I told your lordshyp of a vaute on the ryghte syde of the hyghe altare, that was borne up with fower greate pillars, having abowt it v....
Page 189 - Every of these attendith to hys own office : x of them hewed the walles abowte, amonge the whych ther were 3 carpentars : thiese made proctes to undersette wher the other cutte away, thother brake and cutte the waules.