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The cathedrals of England and Wales. First-[third] series (1905)

Bumpus, Thomas Francis · New York, J. Pott · leaf 282

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See since the Conquest, a prelateno less honoured and revered than his thirteenth-century namesake. Bishop John of Langton occupied the See from1305 to 1337 when English church architecture hadreached its zenith. To him we are indebted, interalia, for the great window of the south transept,… … . H^ • < p^ (^ w Q H W CD X U CHICHESTER 229 is very grand and harmonious in effect—the intro-duction of octofoils and a triple repetition of thevesica within a spherical triangle being a remarkablefeature. The general appearance of this magnificentwindow is much impaired by the painted glass,…

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