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The Alfred jewel: an historical essay (1901)

Earle, John, 1824-1903, Ashmolean Museum · Oxford, Clarendon Press · leaf 234

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which is the oldest part, and to which the highantiquity of a thousand years has been popularlyattributed, speaks by its architecture, which ishere represented. The earliest known dateconnected with the fabric is 1292, in which yearthe foundation stone of the elder chapel waslaid by Richard de… … , M„|i><K/llll l^ THE TOWER OF NORTH NEWTON CHURCH.To face p. 192] appendix F 193 a stipend for the minister:, which still continues.The Parable Door, the Oak Screen, and thePulpit are evidently of the same period, andwere probably given by the same benefactor. The village of North Newton,…

Alfred, King of England, 849-901 · Enamel and enameling

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