Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial (1896)
Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 461
808 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Peushoue. Scott to be, witli tlio single exception of Lincoln Catlicclral, probably tlie mostbeautiful feature of its class to be found in any English church. The great church of Mhich we possess this lovely fragment has a storyreaching back twelve hundred eventful years.… … PERSHORE, FROM THE NORTH-EAST, nej^hews of King Ethelred of Mercia, the son of the famous Penda, receivedgrants of land—the one at Gloucester, the otlier at Pershore—probably as out-posts against the dreaded incursions of the British from South Wales. One ofthese princes, Osric, was the founder of…
Cathedrals · Church architecture · Abbeys
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