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 211
upon which the great shafts of the arcade rest. Most probably it was intendedfor a seat; and in the early days it was perhaps the only sitting accommodation providedin the nave. The sermons of those days, preached in the nave, were certainly not lesslengthy than those of our own time; but the bulk… … Salisbmy. 205 From an artistic point of view there are two or three tombs of exceptionalinterest at Salisbury. First, there is the thirteenth-centur} tomb of Bishop Brid-port, which has been seriously mutilated by the iconoclastic zeal of the past, butwhich is still perfect enough to exhibit to us…
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