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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1883)

Lefroy, William, 1836-1900 · London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday · leaf 51

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at restrictions is not clear, as a burial-place.Through the thirteenth-century choir, begun byAbbot John of York, and continued and completedby his successors and namesakes, John Pherd andJohn of Kent, we pass to the beautiful and strikingeastern transept—the Lady Chapel or Chapel of NineAltars.… … have been lost in the winding approaches of thevalley. The great east window, 60 feet by 23 feet4 inches, is obviously a late fifteenth-century addition.The nine lights and elaborate tracery of this windowseem to have replaced three original lancets, such asmay still be seen in the corresponding…

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