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The cathedrals and churches of the Rhine (1906)

Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco), b. 1871, McManus, Blanche · London : Brimley Johnson & Ince · leaf 378

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while the choir-stalls themselves are placedin the aisles. Certainly a most unusual, andperhaps a unique, arrangement. An altar fronts the west end of either rangeof stalls, and back, at the easterly end of theaisles, is found another altar. The high altar has a handsome modernscreen in the form of… … XXX ESSEN AND DORTMUNDEssen Lying just to the eastward of the Rhine areEssen and Dortmund. The former was once the site of a powerfulabbey of Benedictine nuns, which was dis-solved in 1803. The abbess of Essen was al-ways a titled person, and was a member ofthe Westphalian circle of the Imperial…

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