Famous cathedrals as seen and described by great writers (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead & company · leaf 158
ythe Chapter of Roger, who had been Archdeacon of Canter-bury from 1148, and who had no doubt already givenpromise of that architectural ability and liberality of char-acter which eventually made him the most munificent rulerthat ever presided over the See of York. Becket succeededhim in the… … YORK MINSTER 115 tion at York of this great work, by substituting for theshort simple chancel of the Minster a complex easternbuilding, which, making due allowance for its want ofequal dimensions with Canterbury choir, was yet evidentlyplanned on the same system, with the aisles square-endedinstead…
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