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Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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almost coextensive with the present buildings The Confessors Minster was no doubt far more elaborate in design andexecution than any other church in Britain. St. Stephens and La Trinite, at Caen,though both of slightly later date, may perhaps give us an idea of its mainfeatures. It was cruciform in plan, with three towers, two western, one central,capped by short spires, and with an apsidal east end. No trace of it, however,now remains above ground, though here and there in the monastic precincts a fewfragments of wall may be seen, some of them actual remnants of the Confessorswork, others built not long after his death, and in continuance of his plan.The church w^as only ready for dedication at the close of his reign; and hewas unable to be present at the ceremony. On Innocents Day, 1065, he wasjust able to sign the Charter, the new building was consecrated in the Queenspresence by the hands of Stigand, and on Sylvesters Eve Edward passed away,and a troublous time for England beeran.
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a Westminsteu Abbey.) IIISTOlilCAL. 279 Thus the inaniifiiral events for tlie Abbey of Westminster were the funeralof its founder and the coronation of liis successor—both of them events si<^ni-ficant of its future history. But we will dwell upon this only so far as it affectsthe fabric itself. That remained with little change for nearly two centuries.One of the first acts of Henry III. was to add a Lady Chapel east of theNorman apse. A quarter of a century later (a.d. 1245) he undertook a fargreater work, the rebuilding of the whole Abbey. To him we owe a large partof the present structure ; and to his eclectic tastes many of its peculiarities aredue. The new church was the outcome both of his religious fervour, which wasexceptional, and of his personal feeling towards the English side of his ancestry.It is no less a memorial of another trait in his character—his lavish expenditure; for the roNal Abbey, as in the Confessors time so in Henrys, is absolutely a royalgift. At his

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