Identifier: englishhoneymoon00whar (find matches)
Title: An English honeymoon
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth, 1845- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia and London J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s, all exquisitely carvedin the stone. Over some of the arches thereis Norman toothing, and over others gracefularabesque designs. It is so beautiful even inits ruinous state, that I can find no words inwhich to describe this Chapel, which ProfessorFreeman calls the * loveliest building thatGlastonbury can show, the jewel of the LateEomanesque on a small scale. We have not met one American tourist hereand only a few English people. It is strangethat so few travellers find their way to Glaston-bury, when it is a place of so much beauty andinterest, for, aside from its associations withthe beginnings of Christianity in Great Britain,here it was, according to many an ancient tale,that King Arthur was buried. In *The HighHistory of the Holy Grail it is related thatLancelot came to this ^ rich, fair chapel, andasked whose were the *two coffins covered withpolls, and that one of the hermits told himthat Queen Guinevere lay in one, and the onebeside her was for King Arthur as *^the Queen 250
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GLASTONBURYS SHRINE bade at her death that his body should be setbeside her own when he shall end. Hereofhave we the letters and her seal in this chapel,and this place made she be builded new on thiswise or ever she died. The Abbots Kitchen, an eight-sided building,most interesting in its architecture, with sub-stantial buttresses and a double turret or alantern on top, lies south of the Abbey. Thiskitchen, which is in perfect preservation, wasbeside the great refectory where a generoushospitality was exercised by the Glastonburybrothers. After leaving the Abbey, we made our waythrough many streets to the foot of the greattor, whither we were conducted by a pretty lit-tle girl about Lisas age, who took greatpleasure in showing us the way through ahedge-bordered lane and a little gate. FromTor Chalice or Tor Hill there is a fine view ofthe Bristol channel, the Mendip Hills and WellsCathedral, only five miles away, which we ex-pect to see to-morrow. In the gray tower, ontop of the hill,

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