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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Dean Lyttlcton, appears to have been newlyglazed, or at least a great part of it, about the year 1317, tauj). Edward II., withboth plain and coloured glass brought from Rouen, in Normandy. Thus, in thefabric rolls in that year: In 629 peys de albo vitro empt. apud Rotomagensemxv£ xiv5. ixf/. This was probably ordered for the Lady Chapel. In the roll of 204 CA TIIEDllA L CHURCHES. (Ex.£TEB. 1323, 12 feet of coloured or painted glass is charged at 8s., and 8 feet of plainor white at 2s. 3d., so that in Edward II.s time painted glass appears to havebeen no more than 8d. per foot, and plain glass 4d. * Looking through the building from the great western entrance, the eye is ledfrom end to end, embracing and attracted by its lofty and intricate vaulting,organ-case, pillars, and quaint carvings in bosses and corbels; also its remarkableprojecting minstrels gallery, with sculptm-ed figures of instrumentalists. Theimpression that this vista makes is well described by Charles Knight, in his
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THE NOKTH TOW£K. Old England. He says of it: It is hardly necessary to say the interior isin many respects surpassingly noble and beautiful. The delicate and numberlesspillars, clustering together into so many solid groups for the support of the naveand choir, always a beautiful illustration of a beautiful thought, the power resultingfrom union, seem to particularly arrest our attention in Exeter Cathedral. The entire range of the north side of Exeter Cathedral may be inspected andtaken in at one view from the green on this side of the building, while only thenave, tower, and chapter-house can be seen on the south side; and, as ArchdeaconFreeman remarks, the plan, as now completed, exhibits perhaps the most perfectspecimen in the world of bilateral (or right and left hand) symmetry. Not only does • Cookes Topography (Dovon). ExiiTEK.) THE TOWERS. 205 pillar answer to pillar, and aisle to aisle, and window tracery to window tracery,but also chapel to cliapel: St. John Baptists to St

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