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Title: Handbook to the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, York; being notes on the architecture, stained glass, shields and monuments
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Benson, George, architect
Subjects: York Minster
Publisher: York, B. Johnson
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s, four in height, cut into leafage and flowers and terminating at the top in dragons and lizard-like monsters. THE INTERIOR. It is octagonal, similar to the one at Southwell, but nearly twice the size. Each bay, except the entrance, consists of six canopied stalls under a lofty five-light window. Each stall contains a recessed half octagonal seat ii ^^Hii with detached shafts of Purbeck marble at theHtone Stalls. angles and completely detached ones divide thestalls, having moulded bases and capitals beautifully carvedwith foliage of ivy, maple, oak, thorn, vine, and other trees.One capital with oak foliage has pigs and squirrels feedingon acorns; in another, two men are gathering grapes. There are 196 capitals attached to the stalls, the^^^Camtair^^ foliage has been gilded, the background vermilion, and mouldings gold, vermilion, and blue. The overhanging half-octagonal canopy has two pendants in front carved with birds amongstfoliage, from which and the shaft capitals rise trefoiled
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THE CHAPTEP. HOrSE. 83 arches, these are gabled, and at their mtersections aregrotesque heads, whilst the angle between each stall has agrotesque figure. The gables have finials of foliage. Acornice of vine leaves and grapes runs round the canopies,which have groined ceilings with leafy bosses. There are 88 pendants in which maple, thorn,^pSantr^ ^^J o^^ crowfoot, hop, strawberry, and vine are sculptured; a coiled dragon lurks under onependant, and another with the vine has two reptiles creepingdown to the grapes. A few of the heads to the gables are wanting,^*^SmSs^^^^®^® ^^®^® originally 186; heads of a king, a noble, and not only the various ranks of human societyhave been studied and copied, but the artists have in ideaascended to heaven, and descended to the infernal regionsfor variety of design. (Ilrowne.) One depicts a femaledemon tearing her face, another his satanis majesty with histongue out, his goats horns have been destroyed. The headsare about 4 inches high, and have

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