Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial (1896)
Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 266
d into England, and soon after the foundation ofWestminster, Aldred, Bishop of the Hwiccas, commenced an abbey in this style atGloucester. By the seventh year of the Confessors reign the under-croft, the choir. Qloucesteu.] COMMENCEMENT OF THE BUILDING. 209 and the chapter-house were completed, and… … XHB SOUTH POUCH. of the old Roman wall was demolished. Aldred seems to have availed himselfof the materials and to have occupied the site with his new monastery. In 1062 Aldred was translated from Worcester to the archiepiscopal see ofYork, and he retained, as security for expenditure out of his…
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