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" ... masses of raw colours and gilding. The coincidence of the purity of the Protestant worship with the chasteness which pervades its temples (more especially in some which have been lately renovated), is a certain criterion of national good sense. "... "
Observations on English Architecture, Military, Ecclesiastical, and Civil ... - Page 70
by James Dallaway - 1806 - 318 pages
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 5

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1810 - 842 pages
...in the fifteenth century. On each side are thirty-one stalls of rich tabernacle work, carved in oak, little inferior, in point of execution, to the episcopal throne at Exeter, or those * In Warton'j Remark] on Gothic Architecture, contained in his edition of Spencer's Fairy Queen,...
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A Series of Discourses Upon Architecture in England from the Norman Æra to ...

James Dallaway - 1833 - 464 pages
...a certain criterion of national good sense. " There are thirty-one stalls of rich tabernacle-work, carved in oak, on either side, little inferior in...carving in wood now remaining in England of that early date.* " This choir was built in the grand aera of stained glass, when it was more frequent and excellent...
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A Series of Discourses Upon Architecture in England: From the Norman Aera to ...

James Dallaway - 1833 - 466 pages
...a certain criterion of national good sense. " There are thirty-one stalls of rich tabernacle-work, carved in oak, on either side, little inferior in...execution to the episcopal throne at Exeter, or to the'stalls at Ely, erected in the reign of Edward III., and allowed to be some of the finest pieces...
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Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum, Volume 3

John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 796 pages
...of old oak. In Gloucester Cathedral, also, are thirty-one stalls of rich tabernacle work on cither side, little inferior in point of execution to the...erected in the reign of Edward III., and allowed to be among the finest pieces of carving in wood now remaining in England of that early date. (Sriiton.)...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1844 - 858 pages
...specimens of old oak. bi Gloucester Cathedral, also, are thirty-one stalls of rich tabernacle work - L% H w *Q bN ib sB YV^\ X Ξ QJ Z H h v7 ...-ҲCe/p t vz拊 ^l7 6 G 5 < P f ۰ rIȏ8Ɂ } Q < among the finest pieces of carving in wood now remaining in England of that early date. Of about equal...
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