Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 166
depended on the popularity of thelocal saint. At Canterbury the cathedral was eclipsedby the Abbey of S. Augustine, where the bones of theRoman missionary lay, till the murder of Beckethappened as a blessing in disguise to give the monksof Christchurch the most illustrious saint of the MiddleAges.… … Phot. A. H. Pitcher GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL—The Choir CH. xx] ENGLISH PERPENDICULAR loi S. Wolfstan, and most of the great churches exceptGloucester were well furnished with objects of pilgrim-age. When therefore the body of the murdered King Murder ofEdward II had been refused burial at Malmesbury…
Architecture, Gothic
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