removed, in the spirit of modern improvement,from the church of St. Peter in the East, Ox-ford, exhibited proofs of an antiquity nearly asearly. The font of St. Marys church, Lin-coln, dated ISiO, is handsome and of good proportions, as is the elaborately sculptured onein Winchester Cathedral. The… … GOTHIC ALPHABET OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY. Tapistry.—Tapistry is a curious kind ofmanufacture, serving to adorn chambers,apartments, theatres, &c., by hanging from thewalls or ceilings.—The invention of tapistryseems to have come from the Levant, andwhat adds to the plausiblity of this…
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