A companion to the fourth edition of A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1846)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Wordsworth Collection · Oxford, J. H. Parker · leaf 31
lbans founded by Oflfa, king of the Mercians. The reliques of St. Alban, up to that time obscurely buried, he (Offa) orderedto be reverently taken up and placed in a shrine decorated to the fullest extentof royal munificence with precious stones and gold; a church of most beautifulworkmanship was…
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