The greater abbeys of England, with illustrations in colour after Warwick Goble (1908)
Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York ; Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 48
her Son to her breastand seated on a throne. Above this structure again rosethe roof of this feretory, and at its four angles wereplaced windowed turrets, surrounded with what thewriter calls four lovely crystal domes with their mar-vels. Under this was the precious shrine itself whichhad been… … St Albans at the cost of ^20—some ^400 of our money. Besidesthis golden eagle fixed on the cresting of the shrinewere two suns of pure gold, the long rays of whichwere of silver gilt and on the tip of each was set someprecious stone. Lastly, Abbot Whethamstede in the fifteenth cen-tury presented to…
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