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 195
monuments of foreign prelates, evidences of that morbid feeling about deathwhich pervaded the period just before the Reformation, and made men depict onso many walls these emblems of corruption or the corresponding and still more ghastly-humourous dances of Death. In no English church, except… … THE CLOSE GATEWAY. English Architecture, so it ma} be said to be the home and centre of our earlyhistory. Long is the roll of kings and statesmen who came hither, and whose boneshere lie at rest. Cynegils and Cenwalh, West-Saxon kings, founders of the church,are here; Egbert was buried here in S38…
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