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... reredos , but yet not a detached building , as the Lady chapels so com- monly were . Architecturally speaking , the chapels of Becket and Edward are within the choir at its east end ; the pavement in both cases is raised above the level ...
... reredos , but yet not a detached building , as the Lady chapels so com- monly were . Architecturally speaking , the chapels of Becket and Edward are within the choir at its east end ; the pavement in both cases is raised above the level ...
Page 101
... reredos of the high Altar upon a raised platform inclosed , and forming what was called " feretory , " or chapel for the reception of a feretrum . This platform may still be seen extending partly into the great eastern transept , or ...
... reredos of the high Altar upon a raised platform inclosed , and forming what was called " feretory , " or chapel for the reception of a feretrum . This platform may still be seen extending partly into the great eastern transept , or ...
Page 103
... reredos had been placed behind it . The erection of this is not recorded in the manuscripts of this church . But many similar examples might be cited to shew that in the fourteenth and following centuries the high Altars of the ancient ...
... reredos had been placed behind it . The erection of this is not recorded in the manuscripts of this church . But many similar examples might be cited to shew that in the fourteenth and following centuries the high Altars of the ancient ...
Page 105
... reredos . However the Puritan troopers hewed the Altar rails in pieces in 1642 , and " threw the Altar over and over down the three Altar steps , and left it lying with the heels upwards ' . " The church suffered exceedingly in the ...
... reredos . However the Puritan troopers hewed the Altar rails in pieces in 1642 , and " threw the Altar over and over down the three Altar steps , and left it lying with the heels upwards ' . " The church suffered exceedingly in the ...
Page 106
... reredos they were pro- bably imitated from the original one . The wooden seat of the archbishop in the choir " sedem suam ligneam in choro , " is mentioned in the form of the inthronization ( see the next note ) in 1294. In the form of ...
... reredos they were pro- bably imitated from the original one . The wooden seat of the archbishop in the choir " sedem suam ligneam in choro , " is mentioned in the form of the inthronization ( see the next note ) in 1294. In the form of ...
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aisle altar of St ancient Anselm Anselm's chapel apse arcade Archbishop arches architect Architectural Battely Becket bishop blessed body Bregwin building buried Canterbury Cathedral cathedral choir Christ Church church of Canterbury ciborium clerestory cloister College columns compartment corona cross crypt Cuthbert decorated deposited door Dunstan east Ecclesiæ Edition Edmer Elphege erected Ernulf Exeter College feet feretro feretrum fire front Gervase Gostling high Altar Holy Trinity John Lady chapel Lanfranc marble masonry moldings monks monument morocco nave Non-Subscribers Norman north side Oriel College original ornaments Oxford Parker pavement pier-arches piers pillars placed presbytery Price to Subscribers Prior quæ quod relics remains reredos ribs saints Saxon screen shafts shew shewn shrine side-aisles Somner Souls College steps stone Thomas Thomas à Becket tomb tower transept translation triforium Trinity chapel upper vault wall western Wilfrid William of Sens
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