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 212
itect of that day, inhis efforts to throw off the grim severity of treatment which marks the earliestbeginnings of the cathedral. This monument has been copied for the Cr3-stal Palace.The tomb with recumbent effigy of Longspee, Earl of Salisbury, is valuable as aspecimen of monumental art partly in… … THE CHAPTER-HOUSE. many generations the old English artists coloured everything. Here it may stillbe seen that they painted even their alabaster. Amongst the curiosities of monumental art are two recumbent figures repre-sented as skeletons. Until the recent restoration, only one of these tombs…
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