A Guide to Ripon, Harrogate, Fountains Abbey, Bolton Priory, and Several Places of Interest in Their Vicinity |
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... structures around , must , also , from the long period over which these works extended , have contributed to the same result . Before the close of the thirteenth century , and probably at a far earlier period , the manufacture of ...
... structures around , must , also , from the long period over which these works extended , have contributed to the same result . Before the close of the thirteenth century , and probably at a far earlier period , the manufacture of ...
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... structure seems to have occurred between the first regnal year of King Egfrid , who was present at its consecra- tion , and 678 , when that monarch , by the advice of his wife , persuaded Theodore , Archbishop of Canterbury , to depose ...
... structure seems to have occurred between the first regnal year of King Egfrid , who was present at its consecra- tion , and 678 , when that monarch , by the advice of his wife , persuaded Theodore , Archbishop of Canterbury , to depose ...
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... structure then remained . Odo him- self , in his preface to Frithgode's Metrical Life of Wilfrid , also informs us that , on visiting the old Monastery , he found the grave of Wilfrid in a state of scandalous and indecent neglect ; and ...
... structure then remained . Odo him- self , in his preface to Frithgode's Metrical Life of Wilfrid , also informs us that , on visiting the old Monastery , he found the grave of Wilfrid in a state of scandalous and indecent neglect ; and ...
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... structure was perfected before the Archbishop's decease , though the state of the nave at that period seems only doubtful . After the plan , originally devised by Roger , was completed , the elegant taste and ample resources of some ...
... structure was perfected before the Archbishop's decease , though the state of the nave at that period seems only doubtful . After the plan , originally devised by Roger , was completed , the elegant taste and ample resources of some ...
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... structure , probably suggested its removal , in preference to its restoration ; and it must be allowed that he who was selected to prepare the new design , wrought with no ordinary or unskilful hand . The precise time when the work was ...
... structure , probably suggested its removal , in preference to its restoration ; and it must be allowed that he who was selected to prepare the new design , wrought with no ordinary or unskilful hand . The precise time when the work was ...
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Abbot adorned Aislabie aisle altar ancient angle apartment appurtenant arcade arch Archbishop of York architectural beauty Bishop Bolton building buttresses Canons Carbonate Carbonic Acid Cathedral century Chalybeate Chapter Chapter-house character choir clerestory Collegiate Church Crypt Death decorated Decorated period divided doorway early east side elevation erected feet formed foundation FOUNTAINS ABBEY Hall Harrogate House F John Aislabie John de Cancia King Knaresbrough Lady Chapel lancet lights Leland Liberty of Ripon Lord Magnesia manor Markenfield monastery monks Muriate nave north side observed occupied octagonal original Parliament period Perpendicular Perpendicular period pillar piscina plain portion present Priory probably Refectory remains Ripon river river Ure Roger's roof round-headed ruin Saxon shafts Sir John Mallory Skell Soda Solid Contents south side south transept spring stalls stone structure Studley style Sulphur Water Sulphuretted tion tower town tracery transept triforium valley vault wall western Wilfrid William woods
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Page 125 - A name which it took of yore : A thousand years hath it borne that name, And shall, a thousand more. And hither is young Romilly come, And what may now forbid That he, perhaps for the hundredth time, Shall bound across THE STRID ? He sprang in glee,— for what cared he That the River was strong and the rocks were steep ? — But the Greyhound in the leash hung back, And checked him in his leap. The Boy is in the arms of Wharf, And strangled by a merciless force ; For never more was young Romilly...
Page 29 - HER foundations are upon the holy hills : the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Page 60 - All things are here of him ; from the black pines, Which are his shade on high, and the loud roar Of torrents, where he listeneth, to the vines Which slope his green path downward to the shore, Where the bow'd waters meet him, and adore, Kissing his feet with murmurs ; and the wood, The covert of old trees, with trunks all hoar, But light leaves, young as joy, stands where it stood, Offering to him, and his, a populous solitude.
Page 102 - For a trifling gratuity to the inmates of an adjacent cottage, the visitor may still enjoy the undiminished benefit that it offers, and test, in his own person, the truth of Dr. French's recommendation : that it occasions the retention of nothing that should be evacuated, and, by relaxation, evacuates nothing that should be retained ; that it dries nothing but what 's too moist and flaccid, and heats nothing but what 's too cold, and e contra; and that, "tho...
Page 103 - Cures without care; or a summons to all such as find little or no help by the use of Physick, to repair to the Northern Spaw...
Page 124 - Linn,' which bear witness to the restless impetuosity of so many Northern torrents. But, if here Wharf is lost to the eye, it amply repays another sense by its deep and solemn roar, like ' the Voice of the angry Spirit of the Waters,' heard far above and beneath, amidst the silence of the surrounding woods.
Page 37 - ... passage, in which is a staircase, now walled up, leading to the choir. The most remarkable monument in this Cathedral, is an altar tomb of grey marble in the south aisle of the nave, on which are sculptured a man and a lion in a grove of trees. No inscription remains, but tradition says this tomb covers the body of an Irish prince, who died at Ripon on his return home from the Holy Land. The other monuments worthy of notice, are those of Moses Fowler, first dean of Ripon after it was refounded...
Page 22 - They were things antiquissimi operis, and monumentes of some notable men buried there, so that of al the old monasterie of Ripon and the toun, I saw no likely tokens left after the depopulation of the Danes in that place, but only the Waulles of our Lady chapelle and the crossis.
Page 48 - Cross, now placed over the Bone-House door, was found in 1832, in taking down a wall of the time of Henry VIII., at the east end of the Choir. It has been supposed to be the head of one of those seen by Leland, in the garth of the Abbey ; but the Minster-yard might, with equal probability, have furnished such an object.
Page 22 - stode wher now is a Chapelle of our Lady, in a Botom one close distant by * * * * from the new minstre. " One Marmaduke, Abbate of Fountaines, a man familiar with Salvage, Archebishop of York...