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Court, putting, as it were, the office in commission; so the abbot of each place projecting eastward from the north for canons regular dedicated. Bitterne, in Hampshire, in 1891.
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| 09.12.2011 Build a bearville games |
 But the remains of the foundress and others must first be removed to their new resting-place. Both Simeon and Richard, while urging on the church building, were by no means regardless of the domestic buildings of the monastery. These were being enlarged and improved at the same time. Two bays of ...
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| 08.12.2011 Social construction |
 Some of them were at variance with the prior and convent, and would be little inclined to spend money on the church. Those that had a taste for architecture displayed it in beautifying their palaces or manor-houses, or upon buildings connected with the universities or other places in which they ...
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| 07.12.2011 Attic renovations |
Both doorways are divided by a shaft, and both have open tracery of exceptional beauty above. Bishop Eustace, to whom this porch is attributed, died in 1215. It is not surprising to learn that many careful students of English architecture have found a difficulty in believing that work of such ...
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| 06.12.2011 Building construction types |
In the north aisle all the windows are of the Perpendicular period, and have three lights under ogee arches. Photo.] In the south aisle is placed an ancient memorial stone of the greatest interest. It consists of the square base and part of the shaft of a cross. It was brought here from ...
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| 05.12.2011 Household maintenance |
The monks who had the charge of providing a stone coffin suitable for the reception of the remains of the foundress are said to have "found" one of marble among the ruins of Grantchester, the name of the old town of Cambridge. When disinterred, the body was reported free from all corruption. The ...
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| 05.12.2011 Build a baer |
Possibly the unsettled state of the kingdom may have caused the abbey to be vacant for three years. At the Battle of Assendun, 1016, some of the monks of Ely, as well as Ednod, Bishop of Dorchester, and the Abbot of Ramsey, were slain. The Ely monks took with them to the camp the relics of S. ...
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| 05.12.2011 Renovators auctions |
Thurstan escaped deprivation by his complete submission and prudent conduct, and remained abbot till his death in 1072. But it appears that renovators auctions the monks had not thoroughly made their peace with the Conqueror by the time of Abbot Thurstan's death, for we read, "Eodem anno monachi ...
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| 02.12.2011 Construction best practice programme |
Application was made to the king by two nobles about his Court, both foreigners, for a grant of the Isle of Ely, lately the possession of the monastery. It does not appear what services either had rendered to warrant the application. The sheriff of the county, however, interfered to prevent any ...
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| 01.12.2011 Population and development |
The whole of the south wing of the front belongs to the last quarter of the twelfth century. The lowest stage of all (for there are six stages, divided by horizontal strings) is blank; the next three are late Norman. These have in the lowest stage in each of the two divisions an arcade of seven ...
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| 30.11.2011 Home repair blogs |
The window above is an unfortunate insertion, dating only from 1800; and this, as well as the stained glass with which it is filled, could well be spared. Catharine's Chapel.#--The Transitional character of the late Norman work here is more marked than on the outside of the west front. It will be ...
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| 29.11.2011 Build a school |
 A rich cresting runs along the top, cut through by the gable over the gates, which bears a terminal cross. [Illustration: ELEVATION OF THE BAYS OF THE PRESBYTERY. 55.)] The choir, of three bays, is the work of Bishop Hotham. The last six future buildings bays are the work of Bishop Northwold, ...
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