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Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial (1896)

Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 270

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a glance to realise how much of the Norman workstill remains. At first sight the choir and the transepts seem to belong to thefourteenth century, but on further examination it is found that the Perpen-dicular work is only skin-deep. The panelling has been skilfully attached, asthough with cement,… … h C/J <o O o u> < w X < QW <: o WHCO WO D oo .§ As Uloucesier] ROBERT OF NORMANDY. 211 entreaties to be spared the honour, to accept the vacant Archbishopric of Canter-bury. Mr. Freeman says that almost everything that happened in the reign ofAVilHam II. somehow contrived to happen…

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