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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1891)

Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 125

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on, Abbot of Fountains from 1479to 1494, has not left us in doubt as to the date andauthorship of the later parts of the work. On a key-stone inserted to hide a settlement in one of theoriginal lancets has been carved the bust of an angel 106 The Ruined . Xbbeys of ) orkshire holding a tun and… … and a figure of St. James of Compostella, standingon two fishes. Then- is also on the keystone o\another Early English window, at the north-eastof the chapel, a human head entwined with |eav< and on the inside an angel with a scroll on whichthe date Anno Domini [4! The lower wall this chapel, as…

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