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 52
, for in therestoration which ended in 1874 the Commissioners of Works took it inhand, and though happily they did not attempt the restoration of thesculpture, they covered it over with gilding. The most execrable ofEnglish kings, at his death at Newark in 1216, is said to hav^e com-mended his dust… … 38 CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. [worcest^. eastwards, with the high altar, under Bishop Blois, a few years later,but was replaced in the reign of Henry VHL The effigy is ancient,is believed to have once formed the lid of the stone coffin in whichthe ro\al remains were laid, and is said to be…
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