Identifier: cathedralsabbeys01bonn (find matches)
Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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armshidden in the precincts.During the siege whichtook place in 1646 afield-piece was slung upto the top of the tower;and subsequently thelead off the roof wassold, with much else, byauction. The cathedral hasbeen distinouished bvroyal visits and royalgifts, from King Edgar,m tlie tenth centurv, the choir, with kixg joh>s tomb. downwards. It was a special favourite Avith the Plantagenets. Henry II. and Henry III. attendedmass here soon after accession. John, niggardly as he was, could be lavishin his superstitious awe of Oswald and Wulfstan. Edward I. came almostyearly, particularly before hi>j canqjaigns abroad. Elizabeth visited Worcesterin great state, to the cost of Bishop Bullingham. James 11. insulted thefaithful city by preferring a Roman Catholic chapel to the cathedral and * An old door, now in the crypt, formerly in the porch, is said to be covered with the skin of a Dane,who lagged beliind when his comrades retired to their boats below the west end of tlie cathedral.
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no CATIlhiniiAL affUHCHTlSI. (Worcestek. a Koinan Catliolic priest to the bisliop. The most solemn pao-eant of all wastlio funeral of IVincc Arthur, who died at Lndlow, 1502: the tears and sobsof the crowd attested their sorrow for Ids untimely end. The cathedral wasenriched by the offerings of i)ilgrinis tlocking to the shrines of Oswald andWulfstan. The Lady Godiva of Coventry, in the eleventh century, Avas oneof numy l)enefactors. Traces of old Norman work are fewer and less vivid than they would be,owing to the ))erishable nature of tlic stone. Striped layers, white and green,may be discerned, as at Pisa and Sienna. Tlie hand of the Norman builder maybe seen In tlie walls of the transepts, in the juncture of the north wall of thechoir with the tower, in the western part of the choir, in the south corner ofeach western transept (where the circular staircase projects unusually into the cathe-dral), and elsewhere. Tlic eastern arch of the north transept speaks his skill.A Norman shaf

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