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Handbook to the cathedrals of England

King, R. J. (Richard John), 1818-1879 · 1869 · London : John Murray · 15 pictures

A Victorian guidebook to English cathedrals, written by R. J. King and published in London by John Murray in 1869, aimed at visitors and church-architecture readers. Its plates show Chester Cathedral's chapter house entrance, chapter house interior, a canopied stone sedilia, and a choir aisle with carved wooden stalls and figured panels, drawn in fine black-line engraving that a designer could draw on for Gothic arch, vault, and tracery patterns.

Cathedrals · Church architecture

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