The Cathedrals of England and Wales : their history, architecture, and associations ; with a series of Rembrandt plates and many illustrations in the text (1906)
London ; New York : Cassell · leaf 190
ecrated in 1329 by ^^illiam de Melton, Arch-bishop of York. With the exception of the tower and spire, this church was demolished in the second half of the fifteenth century. Another church, which Leland, who visited the town in 1538, speaks of as a new building, was then erected, and it is this… … PLAN OF WAKEFIELD CATHEDRAL i66 CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. [w.k«,eld. The structure may be said to have been in process of restorationsince early in the eighteenth century. About a third of the spire wasblown down in 1715 ; and after this had been rebuilt it became neces-sary to restore the…
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