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 34
ffered it more than twenty years ago. With amunificence and public spirit which is only too rare, Mr. G. W. Childs, ofPhiladelphia, presented a fine stained-glass window to the Abbey in memory ofthe two religious poets, George Herbert and William Cowper; as he also pre-sented a memorial fountain,… … ALTAR AND REREDOS. Abbey, so far as T am aware, either in living memory or for many previousyears. In old davs, indeed, the Abbey was verj wealth}; but its immenserevenues passed long ago into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.It now possesses not a single acre of estates, and the…
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