Remarks on English churches and on the expediency of rendering sepulchral memorials subservient to pious and Christian uses (1843)
Markland, J. H. (James Heywood), 1788-1864 · Oxford : J.H. Parker · leaf 101
They had accumulated to such an extent, as greatlyto impair the beautiful effect of the building. The misdeeds of the Iconoclasts did not give birthto a greater outrage, than that, which was committed,under the auspices of the Duchess of Buckingham-shire, and of Pope, as her adviser, so late as the… … ■ MONUMENT OFSHEFFIELD. DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. c ■o AND ON SEPULCHRAL MEMORIALS. 63 Duke of Buckinghamshire, in Henry the SeventhsChapel. Three statues, with their highly-wroughtniches, were destroyed, in order to receive the incon-gruous medley, which is thus described; The por-traiture of his Grace,…
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