Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial (1896)
Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 123
dral. Thepopular veneration for St. Hugh—the earlier bearer of the name—was the movingcause of the prolongation of the eastern limb, by the erection of the AngelChoir, to receive the shrine containing his body, for which work the offerings 84 CATHEDIIAL CHURCHES. [Lincoln. of the devotees flocking-… … westernbuilding,part offashion. Eleanor, his brother Edmund, Earl ofLancaster, Archbishop Peckham, and animmense concourse of the leading eccle-siastics and nobles of the day. The addi-tion of the Angel Choir completed themain fabric of the cathedral. The cloisterswere added in the geometrical…
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