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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 42

An illustration from Westminster abbey and the cathedrals of England, 1895, leaf 42
lds a stole, which is twisted round the neck of a dragon. Mr. ]\Iickleth-waite, F. S. A., has now proved that this is an ideal figure—an All-hallows, ofwhich it is an almost unique example. It was the custom in mediaeval churchesto place at the east end an image of the patron saint. When a church…

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