Altogether there can be no doubt of the claim of the church to a place in the very first rank of the great minsters of a province specially rich in such works.
If it stood in its perfect state at Caen, among that wonderful group of noble minsters and great parish churches, it would strike us as a beautiful, but a small thing.
The church of William's day has given way to a superb fabric of the thirteenth century, which needs only towers, which are strangely lacking, to rank among the finest minsters in Normandy.
Indeed most of the great Norman churches come nearer to this type than to that of minsters of a vaster scale.
Elsewhere, the central tower, not uncommon in churches of the second and third rank, is altogether unknown among cathedrals and other great minsters of days later than Romanesque.
Their Christianity was sad; their minsters sad; there are few sadder, though few grander, buildings than a Norman church.
It was small compared with the great Romanesque minstersof Peterborough, Ely, and Norwich, or with its own rival at Bath.
The church of Wells then, simply taken by itself, claims a high place among buildings of its own class, that is, among minsters of the second order.
The Norman and other foreign Prelates, who were thrust into English Bishopricks and Abbeys, had almost everywhere rebuilt their minsters in the newly imported style long before the time of Robert's episcopate.
In countless other great Gothic minsters the same feeling is produced.
She nodded toward the west: "The Minstersare on the way to Brookminster, the Orchils have already arrived at Hitherwood House, and the coachmen and horses were housed at Southlawn last night.
When they were distinct, they must have stood even nearer than the old and new minsters at Winchester; indeed a plan in a local work shows, with every probability, their walls as actually touching in one point.
Those whose taste has been formed by English minsters may prefer Bayeux, those whose loiterings have made them familiar with the cradle-land of the national art of France will find their ideal in the classic restraint of Soissons.
Like the minsters of England, Fécamp is more remarkable in its length than in its height.
In the Norman minsters is a primeval energy admirably restrained, a massive grace, a something of reasoned simplicity lost in the Gothic cathedrals of the region.
NOTE 2] They have a great many abbeys and minsters full of idols of sundry fashions, to which they pay great honour and reverence, worshipping them and sacrificing to them with much ado.
NOTE 1] The people are Idolaters, Saracens, and Christians, and the latter have three very fine churches in the city, whilst the Idolaters have many minsters and abbeys after their fashion.
Yun-Hien was the abbot of one of those great minstersand abbeys of Bacsis, of which Marco speaks, and the exact date (no longer visible) of the monument was equivalent to A.
NOTE 12] They have also immense Minsters and Abbeys, some of them as big as a small town, with more than two thousand monks (i.
Norman minsters continue to be used for the services of the Church of England”--English Church History (Rev.
Whitby the same ecclesiastical privileges as those attached to the minsters of Ripon and Beverley.
Pg298] At Caen, in June, the two great minsters had been dedicated, and William and Matilda had given their young daughter Cecily to the service of God, together with rich offerings of lands and money.
The Normans were skilful architects, and not only their minsters and monasteries, but their houses too, were fit for such proud inhabitants, and rich with hangings and comfortable furnishings.
The oldest houses are low and small, but the oldest minsters and parish churches are very noble buildings.
When fire was leaping high at the city gates it is impossible not to regret its enmity against dear and noble structures of the past, even though it cleared the way for loftier minsters and fairer dwelling-places.
Then came he afterwards to King Edgar, and requested that he would give him all theminsters that heathen men had before destroyed; for that he would renew them.
Vain to have builded minsters in his honor, and heaped the shrines of his saints with gold.
Then he himself died and was buried, not in either of the two great Minsters which he had caused to be erected, but in a little chapel on the banks of the Ouse, near Bedford.
Pursenal felines, however, shud not halways way with us, but since Fulmer as taken this turn towards refurm, all the Minsters have been so servile to us, that we are quite churmed.
Fulmer tells me that Lord Hill has got the Blues--I am sorry his Lordship takes the change of Minsters so much to heart.
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