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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 229

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In the next Plate we see the mischief, which has beenoccasioned in the north transept of Worcester Cathedral,by carelessly affixing a tablet to the wall, without anyregard to the architecture of the building, and thus,as we have just noticed, what has been preserved atLichfield has, in this… … Worcester Cathedral. We may here advert to the very serious injury, whichhas resulted to many of our Churches from the Intermentswithin their walls. This practice should he altogetherdiscontinued, except in those cases, where vaults or cata-combs have been constructed coeval with the Church. Insome…

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