A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1902)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886, Spiers, Richard Phené, 1838-1916, Kerr, Robert, 1823-1904 · London, J. Murray · leaf 408
III. CHAPTER-HOUSES. 389 assembly-place, where the bishop sat in the centre of his clergy andregulated the affairs of the church. In Italy this arrangement con-tinued till late in the Middle Ages. In France it never seems to havehad any real existence, though figuratively it always prevailed.… … 839. Chapter-House, Bristol. (Cath. Hb.) ment was well suited for the delivery of an allocution or pastoraladdress by the bishop to his clergy, and was all that was required ina despotic hierarchy like the French Church; but it was by no meansin accordance with the Anglo-Saxon idea of a deliberate…
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