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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1891)

Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 126

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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 well as of the presbytery, arc adorned Fountains 107 with a beautiful trifoliated arcadinsr, the design ofwhich was repeated in the reredos of the… … headed ones. The latter rest on one side on singlecolumns from which spring the pointed arches overthe lancet windows, while on the other they descendmuch lower to meet the clustered shafts which carriedthe vaulting ribs. It is perhaps difficult in thepresent state of the building to judge of the…

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