Cathedral days : a tour through southern England (1887)
Dodd, Anna Bowman, 1855-1929, Deane, E. Eldon, ill · Boston : Roberts Brothers · leaf 180
ged ornamentation seems to havebeen carved by the sun and the wind rather thanby the chisel. Beyond is the magnificent reredos,so ingeniously elaborate as to make the minutiaeof lace-work insignificant by comparison. Behindthis great altar screen-work of embroidery isa series of shrines known as… … Chantries, Winchester. Page 156. WINCHESTER. 157 some miraculous cure, were allowed to remainover night, that they might the more obstinatelywrench their salvation from the saints enshrinedabove, — from Saint Swithun, Saint Birinus, andother sainted workers of cures. With the superstition something…
Cathedrals
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