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The arts in early England (1903)

Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932, Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956, Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980 · London, J. Murray · leaf 509

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otentialities of the institution. St Cuthbertwas the great Durham asset as Thomas Becket was the greatasset of Canterbury, and the writings in the Norman periodof Symeon of Durham show how well remembered were theevents of the remarkable posthumous history of the Saint.The coffin that enshrined the… … Fig. 3o.~The Coffin of St Cuthbert, restored. conjecture, but it seems likely enough that the hide-covered area which enclosed the actual coffin had been made at thetime of the exodus from Lindisfarne for the express purposeof keeping the sacred receptacle safe on its journeyings, andon a review of…

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