Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial (1896)
Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 121
496 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Waltham Bupposing tliat Harold, like King Edward at Westminster, entrusted the buildingof his church to Norman architects, as he had personal knowledge of the superi-ority of their work to that of the men of his own land. Negative evidence, for a discussion of which we are… … strongly in favour of theclaim of Waltham Abbey to be the actual work of Harold. There are two early chronicles: the VitaHaroldi, which was wiitten shortly after the year 1205, and the Liber deInventione Sanctse Crucis, already mentioned. Now, whatever be the date ofthe Romanesque work at Waltham,…
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