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Title: A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Gostling, William, 1696-1777
Subjects: Canterbury (England) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Canterbury, W. Blackley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eat tower roundthe cross aisles and the Trinity chapel, and backagain to the great tower on its south-easterncorner. The subject of them appears to havebeen the genealogy of our blessed Saviour. Theupper half of the first window (beginning at thenorth-west corner of the choir) is quite defaced,and probably so for having been a design torepresent the Almighty ; the lower has the figureof Adam at his husbandry work, with his name toit. Several of the rest are without figures ; butwhere any are i-emaining, the style in which theyare drawn, and the thrones on which they areplaced, much resemble those of the kings on theobverse of our earliest royal seals. As many of them as remain are given in the 327 loUowinjij sflicme; wliicli is the best method Icould find of showing the present state of them. Nos. 9 and 41 are very large and circular win-dows in the north and south heads of the building.That in the north has some figures in its comjmrt-ments as lielow, which aw worthy of examina-tion.
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1 2 Two persons standing in two beautiful niches; one seems ojieiiluga hook • on one side of his head is a Gotliic M, on the other SO. Theother hohls on his U-ft arm a resenihhmcc of the mosaic tabk\s : the twoletters on one side of his head are indistinct, on the other side is GOG. 3 A female figure crowned, hold ig on her right hand a bird, on herleft another. The title is nibbed otf. 4 Justitia stooping and holding in her right liand a pair of scales over agolden bag. 5 Temperantia, crowned, in her right hand a lighted U)rcli, and in herleft a cup. C) A female, in her right hand a sword, no inscription. 7 YSAIA. 8 JEREMIA. <J EZKCHIEL. 0 DANIEL.Each sitting on a tlirone. The eight last figures, which surround the twoin the middle, represent the four greater prophets, and the four cardinal vir-tues. They are all well drawn, and their altitudes well varied. The circleis filled up with a beautiful mosaic bordering, and the rest of the window isplain glass, excepting the bonhr 328

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