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An itinerary of the English cathedrals for the use of travellers (1901)

Gilchrist, James Grant, 1842-1906, comp, Perkins, Thomas, 1842-1907, ed · London, G. Bell & Sons · leaf 36

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vered by a vaulted stone roof, theearliest built in England; Norman naves were generally ceiledwith wood, as at Peterborough and Ely. The choir is dividedfrom the crossing by an open screen of nineteenth-centurymanufacture, erected about 1875, when the restorers workedtheir will on the interior of… … Photo. PhotochroTn. Co. Ltd.THB GALILEE OR LADY CHAPEL. above which is the bishops throne. The reredos is known as theNeville screen, 1380, through which on either side a door leadsto the site of the tomb of St. Cuthbert behind the high altar.Whether the body of St. Cuthbert, who died 687, rests…

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