Identifier: gothicarchitectu01jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rine, of which illustra:tions are given in a MS. at Cambridge written forEleanor, the queen of Henry III3. Its extraordinarysplendour is mentioned by many travellers. I sawone day, says Trevisano, an Italian, in 1497, thetomb of King Edward in the church at Westminster, andtruly neither St Martin of Tours, nor anything else thatI have seen can be put into any comparison with it4.The shrine was destroyed at the Reformation and thebody buried elsewhere, but in Sir G. G. Scotts opinionthe lower part which still remains was not taken down.At Queen Marys counter-reformation the body was 1 Matthew Paris says the gold shrine was ordered by Henry in 1241.Gleanings, p. 127, &c. 2 In Erasmuss colloquy,—Peregrinatio Religionis ergo,—is a descriptionof the shrine of S. Thomas at Canterbury. Auream thecam theca contegitlignea ; eafimibus sublata opes nudat incEstimabiles. 3 Two of the illuminations are illustrated in Burgess paper, Gleanings,pp. 136-8. 4 Cited Lethaby, p. 9. %*t- J^&L.
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