Iconography of the west front of Wells cathedral, with an appendix on the sculptures of other medieval churches in England; (1851)
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863 · Oxford London, J.H. Parker · leaf 131
cession, is Edward the Confessor. But the admissionof his statue to this, the western front, was not compatible with the scheme of thissculpturesque illustration. He could hardly be said to belong to the happiestmemory of the Cerdic dynasty, and, however virtuous and amiable, he would notbe… … THE TEMPORAL SIDE. 87 pointing with her left to her brother Harold, and her husband, Edward theConfessor, is undoubtedly Edgitha, the virgin wife of the last of the Saxon kings.Besides her personal and literary merits, she had peculiar claims to be recorded inWells, as having endowed the See with…
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