Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial (1896)
Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 422
partly the work of Abbot Mannie, a contem-porary of Edward the Confessor. Mannie was reckoned the best goldsmith ofhis day. This exquisite shrine was made of gold, studded with sparkling gems,and when the lights were lit in the church, the dusky gleaming of the gold andgems is said to have… … u u u u MOA M <CO < I—I w ►J 33o H<1 771 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Evesham Abbbt. costly, and an enormous number of sacred and other vessels belonging- to theabbey were of solid silver, not a few of them enriched with gems. With a fierce recklessness, with a strange disregard for what was…
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