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Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders (1916)

Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950 · Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company · leaf 32

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ls Library containedthe following: The precise origin of the commencements of the Ca-thedral of Malines is unknown, as the ancient recordswere destroyed, together with the archives, during thetroubles in the sixteenth century. The Nefs and thetransepts are the most ancient, their construction… … . .^|R«».».^ ^ f|ii>«i)i. MALINES great conflagration of May, 1342, which destroyed nearlyall of the town, spared the church itself, but consumedthe entire roof of heavy beams of Norway pine. Theruins remained thus for a long period because of lack offunds for restoration, and in the meantime…

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