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 39
apel, Cambridge, is never foundin Continental architecture, but is the peculiar glory of the English style. The choir stalls and Miserere seats are exquisitely and elaborately carved,but with designs which are sometimes grotesque and satirical. The niches whichrun round the walls once contained one… … HENRV xiis CHAPEI,. Westminster Abbey. 33 of Mr. Micklethwaite. Some of them are exceedingly curious. One is to a saintwho has been for ages forgotten. It is the fiftli figure from the east in tlic southaisle, and represents a bearded woman leaning on a T-shaped cross. It is St.Wilgefortis, who was…
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