The cathedrals of Great Britain, their history and architecture; (1904)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · London : J. M. Dent & Company; Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Coy · leaf 270
at in thetime of the Saxons itwas re-dedicated to St. Werburgh and St. Oswald. St. Oswald we have met before atDurham and elsewhere. St. Werburgh was the daughter of Walphur,King of Mercia, a.d. 660, who, perceiving that his daughter wasmuch disposed to a religious life, caused her to take the… … ST. OSWALD S GATE 250 Cathedrals of Great Britain is somewhat uncertain. Ormerod, the historian of Chester, statesthat it continued a nunnery until the time of the Norman Conquest,when secular canons were installed in their stead, but this changetook place in the time of King Athelstan (925).…
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