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Famous cathedrals as seen and described by great writers (1909)

Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead & company · leaf 182

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oad, deep triforlum and dignified clerestory. The orig-inal tower, however, was not destined to stand long. Soonafter William Rufus was buried under it, in iioo, whetherfrom faulty construction, or uncertain foundations in thewet ground, or from being weakened by excavating too nearthe piers; or… … WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL 133 funds to the church, and a new tower was carried out withmassive firmness. There is but little in the church of Decorated or Middle-Pointed style i four bays of the choir, unrivalled in graceand richness of mouldings and the tracery of one or twowindows, are all that…

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