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Страница 43 - Chapel is one grand pointed arch, indented on the sides by the arches of the windows ; a centre rib, with one on each side, extend east and west ; seven others diverge from each column, and intersecting throughout the surface of the whole vault, form a vast variety of lozenges, radii, and angles, which are bound together by fillets, the whole is covered with numberless rosettes, flowers, foliage and scrolls.
Страница 42 - ... which may be the case; it is, however, certain that the tapestry which covered it, .was given to the parish of Badgeworth, and is now placed in the church there. On the south side of the altar are three seats for the officiating priests ; " four buttresses exquisitely fluted, and enriched with foliage, enclose and support three sided canopies with indented trefoil arches, from each corner of which small clustered columns ascend to a cornice, forming eight arches, finely indented, and a diminutive...
Страница 55 - A full-length marble statue, in judicial robes, erected by John Snell, Esq., to the memory of his uncle, Judge Powell, who in 1685 represented this city, his native place, in parliament. He was successively a Justice of Common Pleas and the King's Bench, and was one of the Judges who tried the seven Bishops, and joined in the declaration against the King's dispensing power. For this, James II. deprived him of his office, July 2, 1 688 ; but William I II.
Страница 23 - The ornamental members and perforated pinnacles are of the most delicate tabernacle work, very full, but preserving an air of chasteness and simplicity. * " Its peculiar perfection, which immediately strikes the eye, is an exact symmetry of component parts, and the judicious distribution of ornaments. The shaft of the tower is equally divided into two stories, correctly repeated in every particle ; and the open parapet and pinnacles so richly clustered, are an example of Gothick, in its most improved...
Страница 44 - Doubt not but God who sits on high Thy secret prayers can hear ; When a dead wall, thus cunningly, Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
Страница 6 - On Whitsun even, Henry VII. came from Worcester to Gloucester. Three miles from the town he was met by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, in scarlet gowns, and a great multitude of people on horseback. A procession of friars and ecclesiastics, belonging to the parish churches, attended him from between the two bridges, and the Abbot, and other members of the Monastery, at the church door. On the Sunday, the Abbot, wearing his mitre, sung high mass, and went in procession. The sermon was preached...
Страница 93 - July, 1868, given a legacy of £10,000 "to the treasurer for the time being of the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the clergy of the diocese of Worcester, to be applied by him for the benefit of that charity.
Страница 60 - In the burial ground attached to the church, is a monument bearing the following inscription : John Hooper, DD Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, was burnt on this spot, on Saturday, February IX, MDLV, for his steady adherence to the Protestant Religion.
Страница 37 - At the same timt. were put in, the clerestory windows, pointed and finished on the outside with canopies, which were not introduced till the latter end of the twelfth, or early in the thirteenth century. The nave originally extended westward about ten feet and a half beyond the last circular pillars ; the remaining part, as it now appears, was built in 1422, by Abbot Morwent. The two pillars which support this new structure, differ much in style from the others, being lighter in their appearance...
Страница 42 - ... interspersed. The ceiling of this porch has a cross of rich pendants, surrounded by the most elaborate ribs judiciously intersected. The first object which strikes the eye on entering is the fine eastern window, adorned with painted glass of brilliant colours, and representations of our Saviour, surrounded by kings, prelates, and abbots, thirty-seven in number, and varied with great judgment and effect. The altar-piece is of stucco, resembling a radiation by no means appropriate to its situation.