The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain. Accompanied with descriptions (1815)
Storer, James, 1771-1853 · London, Published for the proprietors by Wm. Clarke... J. Murray... S. Bagster... J.M. Richardson... and Sherwood and Co. .. · leaf 41
r stood in the centre ofthe building on four arches, which gave way, and precipitatedit to the ground. To prevent the recurrence of a like acci-dent, Alan de Walsingham, sub-prior of the convent, andsacrist of the church, a person eminently versed in architec-ture, designed and erected the present… … mii ELY, CAMBRIDGESHIRE. represent the principal events in the life of Etheldreda. Thisoctagon is probably unequalled by any other of the kind :the stone-work was completed in six years, and the wood-work raised thereon, and covered with lead, in about fifteen.The whole was perfected in the year…
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