The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone; (1886)
Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910 · Boston, Ticknor · leaf 288
470), the three towers were added, and the granddesign was, in the main, completed. The south end of the transept shows one of the most im-posing fronts ever built in the Early English style, with thetall lancet windows, arcades, and toothed ornaments peculiarto it, varied by a rarity in England, a… … YORK CATHEDRAL, WEST FRONT, YORK. 207 were conspicuous, and had a dark-yellowish brown or bronzetint, imparted by a process used to preserve them, — in whichthey had been biled in ile, as an old verger told the writer.A year later their color was much toned down, and alreadyblended with the tints…
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