Download or read book Bosses Corbels of Exeter Cathedral written by Edith K. Prideaux and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Figure Sculpture of the West Front of Exeter Cathedral Church written by Edith K. Prideaux and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bosses Corbels of Exeter Cathedral written by E. K. Prideaux and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Roof Bosses in Medieval Churches written by Charles John Philip Cave and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1948 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medieval Carvings in Exeter Cathedral written by Charles John Philip Cave and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Architectural History of Exeter Cathedral written by Philip Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bell s Cathedrals Complete written by Various Authors and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 2885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At York the city did not grow up round the cathedral as at Ely or Lincoln, for York, like Rome or Athens, is an immemorial—a prehistoric—city; though like them it has legends of its foundation. Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose knowledge of Britain before the Roman occupation is not shared by our modern historians, gives the following account of its beginning:—"Ebraucus, son of Mempricius, the third king from Brute, did build a city north of Humber, which from his own name, he called Kaer Ebrauc—that is, the City of Ebraucus—about the time that David ruled in Judea." Thus, by tradition, as both Romulus and Ebraucus were descended from Priam, Rome and York are sister cities; and York is the older of the two. One can understand the eagerness of Drake, the historian of York, to believe the story. According to him the verity of Geoffrey's history has been excellently well vindicated, but in Drake's time romance was preferred to evidence almost as easily as in Geoffrey's, and he gives us no facts to support his belief, for the very good reason that he has none to give. Abandoning, therefore, the account of Geoffrey of Monmouth, we are reduced to these facts and surmises. Before the Roman invasion the valley of the Ouse was in the hands of a tribe called the Brigantes, who probably had a settlement on or near the site of the present city of York. Tools of flint and bronze and vessels of clay have been found in the neighbourhood. The Brigantes, no doubt, waged intermittent war upon the neighbouring tribes, and on the wolds surrounding the city are to be found barrows and traces of fortifications to which they retired from time to time for safety. The position of York would make it a favourable one for a settlement. It stands at the head of a fertile and pleasant valley and on the banks of a tidal river. Possibly there were tribal settlements on the eastern wolds in the neighbourhood in earlier and still more barbarous times, before the Brigantes found it safe to make a permanent home in the valley, but this is all conjecture. It is not until the Roman conquest of Britain that York enters into history.

Download or read book An Introduction to English Church Architecture from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century With 1 400 Illus written by Francis Bond and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bell s Cathedrals written by Percy Addleshaw and published by Publio Kiadó Kft. This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of any ancient cathedral must always be interesting, and that of Exeter is no exception, though "it supplies less of architectural history than those churches whose whole character has been altered over and over again." A cathedral represents not only the spiritual, but the active, laborious, and artistic life of past generations. The bishop, too, was in many ways the head man of the province, and combined, not seldom, the varied qualities of priest, warrior, and statesman. The acts of such ecclesiastics were full of importance, not for their own city only, but often also for the whole nation. As men who had frequently travelled much and studied deeply, they summoned to their aid in the building and beautifying of their churches the most skilled artists end artificers of their time; so, with the story of the lives of the bishops of a diocese, the history of a cathedral's building is inextricably woven. To be elevated to a bishopric generally meant to be put into possession of great wealth—when Veysey became bishop the revenues of the see of Exeter have, by some authors, been computed at £100,000; Canon Hingeston-Randolph puts them, with more reason and authority, at the sum of £30,000—and a large portion of this money was spent on works connected with the chief church of the diocese. It is not wonderful, therefore, this generosity being joined to marvellous skill and taste, that our old cathedrals are at once the despair and envy of the modern architect. And it is with a feeling of reverence that one recalls the history of those who built in the heart of each populous city "grey cliffs of lonely stone into the midst of sailing birds and silent air."

Download or read book Some Studies in the Topography of the Cathedral Close Exeter written by Ethel Lega-Weekes and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Building of the Cathedral Church of St Peter in Exeter written by Herbert Eustace Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Devon written by Bridget Cherry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exeter Cathedral is but the crowning glory of Devon's wealth of medieval churches, replete with sumptuous fittings and monuments. The county's peak of prosperity from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth-century is reflected too in its castles, its secluded manor houses, and its scores of sturdily built farmhouses. The delights of Devon's well loved seaside and country towns are explored from the distinctive merchants' houses of Totnes and Topsham to the elegant Regency crescents of Teignmouth and Sidmouth. The picture is completed by accounts of the creation of the docks at Plymouth, industrial relics, and the substantial but little known store of Devon's Victorian churches.

Download or read book An Introduction to English Church Architecture from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century written by Francis Bond and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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