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

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ics which he had created out ofthe revenues of the dissolved religious houses, andthe consequence has been, that the mixed Gothicsubject of our present sketch remained in a stateof tolerable preservation, while the Romanesque StJohns was overtaken by grievous degradation andpartial ruin. Chester… … < Pi Q w o o a; o I CHESTER 247 last sixty years, it cannot claim a high rank amongchurches of its class. Besides this it laboured for more than threecenturies under the disadvantage of never havingbeen properly finished, especially as regards itsvaulting. To this circumstance, coupled with…

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