A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 99
s were probably utilised to divide the bays into separate chapels,and altars were placed against the east of each bay, the wall above forming a reredos upon wliich sacredsubjects were painted. Some of these paintings are in fair preservation, and are seen in the photograph.That these paintings were… … Plate No. XXX\. WALTHAM ABBEY, ESSEX. <: 1100. N Waltham Abbey was built by Harold, and he was buried here after the Battle of Hastings. The choirwas the only portion built before the Conquest, and that has been demolished. The nave, which stillstands, was a continuance of the church westwards…
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