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 70
oured glass, especially in its lower portion. Prob-ably the Lady Chapelwhich was subsequentlyerected was then con-templated, and so theuse of more highly-coloured glass wasavoided. In the middleof the floor of the choiris the effigy of RobertCurthose, son of theConqueror, who wasburied, as we have… … placed on the tradi-tional site of theentombment. Duringthe Civil Wars thefigure, which cannot beolder than the periodof Henry II., and isprobably a copy of anearlier one, was broken in pieces by the Parliamentary soldiers; but Sir Humphrv Tracy carefullypreserved the fragments, and at the…
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