Westminster abbey and the cathedrals of England (1895)
Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903, Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868, Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881 · Philadelphia : J. C. Winston & co. · leaf 113
nt. The gorgeous shrine stood in the centre on its colouredpavement, but no other corpse had been admitted within that venerated ground—no other,perhaps, would have been admitted but that of the Black Prince. In this sacred spot—be-lieved at that time to be the most sacred spot in England—the tomb… … CHRIST CHURCH GATKWAY. Cantcibury. 107 THE SHRINE OF BECKET. AMONGST the many treasures of art and of devotion which once adorned orwhich still adorn the metropolitical cathedral, the one point to which for more than three centuries the attention of every stranger who entered itsgates was directed,…
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