Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · London : Methuen · leaf 47
y the nine altars a|ranged along the eastern wall of the church and facirthe shrine of St. Cuthbert. They, says the author, each had their several shrinand covers of wainscot over-head, in very decent and comeiform, having likewise betwixt every altar a very fair alarge partition of wainscot, all… … CANONS IN CHOIR PARTS OF A MONASTERY 17 ments belonging to every altar ; with three or four aumbries inthe wall pertaining to some of the said altars. It would be now quite impossible to describe the richadornments of an English mediaeval monastic church.The Rites of Durham give some idea of the…
Monasteries · Monasticism and religious orders
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