Identifier: cathedralsabbeys01bonn (find matches)
Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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treme east end of the cathedral, and is thelatest of the abbey works, being completed only at the beginning of the six-teenth century. It has some fine, rich work, and a stone roof of beautiful fantracery. Three Archbishops of York are interred here. Two of these, Elfricus andKinsius, had been monks of the house; to them there is no monument. Kinsiushad been chaplain to Edward the Confessor. The third is the late Bishop,William Connor Magee, who survived his translation to York only a few months.A massive cross, of Irish marble, has been erected over his grave in thechurchyard. Of ancient inscriptions the church has singularly few. Those that escapedthe fury of the Civil War in the seventeenth century fell victims to an indis-criminate zeal for repaving in the eighteenth. Fragments of five or six pre-Reformation inscriptions at most can now be seen, and of these the onlyperfect ones have been laid bare in the recent work. The abbots were many of them men of commanding influence in the
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.5^ CO <:w Xh Ow U o < QW H<JO Xo DO O CQ0^ hW Oh Peterborough.) ROYAL VISITORS. 179 councils of the nation, a race of statesmen and warriors. Four of tliein becamearchbishops or bishops. One of them, Adulphus, had been chancellor to King-Edgar ; another, John de Caleto, was chief justice and went on circuit;Leofricus was of near kin to the queen of Edward the Confessor ; )3rando wasuncle to Hereward. On not a few occasions has the sovereign been entertainedby tlie abbey at great cost. Stephen came to see the most precious relic ofthe house, the famous arm of the sainted King Oswald. Henry III. twicevisited the abbey, once Avith his queen and Prince Edward; and this monarchaccepted a present of sixty marks towards the marriage of his daughter with theKing of Scotland. In 1273 Edward, now king, paid a second visit to theabbot; in 1302, with his queen, a third; and later on a fourth. The abbot con-tributed largely towards his expenses in Scotland. Prince Edward, afterwardsEdwar

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