Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial (1890)
Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923, Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 248
partly the work of Abbot Mannic, 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… … 9S 774 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Evesham Abbey. costly, and an enormous number of sacred and other vessels belonjrinjr 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 beautifuland venerable, the Commissioners of…
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