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Handbook to the cathedrals of England (1861)

King, Richard John, 1818-1879 · London, J. Murray; [etc., etc.] · leaf 152

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94 fjtwforb CatfctaaL XYII. The walls of this central apse are retained in the vestibule to the Lady-chapel. They are pierced north and south with transitional Norman window openings ; pointed arches, with massive mouldings, one of which, an enriched diamond, runs round the soffete, and is carried… … Window in vestibule of Lady-chapel foliage of the capitals is of completely Early English character. These windows (the glass in which, as is indicated by their rebated jambs, was fixed in wooden

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