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The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone; (1886)

Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910 · Boston, Ticknor · leaf 167

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restored in the tenthcentury, but in the latter part of the eleventh was a ruin, andsince then its fragments have disappeared. Lanfranc, of Pavia,a monk of Bee, then famous as a seat of learning, who becamethe first Norman archbishop in 1070, reconstructed the cathe-dral. Anselm, his successor,… … ^BURf CA^H^%l|g CANTERBURY. 113 and nave were built, and a great central tower was added nearthe end of the fifteenth century. The variety of styles is con-sequently great, for all the works from that of Lanfranc arenow represented, and compose the existing church — a worthyshrine for the memorials…

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