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... feet in length , in memory of the said Hugh , their illustrious patron ; a kind of mo- nument then but recently introduced . He was represented in full armour , in mailed hauberk drawn over his head like a hood , surcoat , baudrick ...
... feet in length , in memory of the said Hugh , their illustrious patron ; a kind of mo- nument then but recently introduced . He was represented in full armour , in mailed hauberk drawn over his head like a hood , surcoat , baudrick ...
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... feet above the level of the floor , so as to form a seat under every arch . The walls were four feet in thickness , and the gay sunbeam which struggled through the stained glass was reflected on the heavy internal splays and fres- coed ...
... feet above the level of the floor , so as to form a seat under every arch . The walls were four feet in thickness , and the gay sunbeam which struggled through the stained glass was reflected on the heavy internal splays and fres- coed ...
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... feet of the rafters by slanting braces fastened with wooden pins . Then the whole frame was boarded outside with stout oak planks , which held every part firmly together ; and so it was covered at a great expense with thick sheets of ...
... feet of the rafters by slanting braces fastened with wooden pins . Then the whole frame was boarded outside with stout oak planks , which held every part firmly together ; and so it was covered at a great expense with thick sheets of ...
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... feet high by one and a half wide , the following designs were wrought . In the middle was a large Vesica Piscis , in which , on a clear deep azure ground , was depicted with great majesty the Saviour , holding in one hand a globe , and ...
... feet high by one and a half wide , the following designs were wrought . In the middle was a large Vesica Piscis , in which , on a clear deep azure ground , was depicted with great majesty the Saviour , holding in one hand a globe , and ...
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... feet high , bearing the infant Saviour on his shoulders . He was walking with an uprooted tree through a stream of water , in which many fishes were seen to play in sportive shoals around the feet of the Saint . All round the cornice of ...
... feet high , bearing the infant Saviour on his shoulders . He was walking with an uprooted tree through a stream of water , in which many fishes were seen to play in sportive shoals around the feet of the Saint . All round the cornice of ...
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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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