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- 11403
- author: Woodhouse, Frederic W.
- title: The Churches of Coventry: A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
- date: None
- words: 27988
- flesch: 73
- summary: Sir James Harrington, writing in the reign of James I, tells a curious story of their loss: The pavement of Coventry church is almost all tombstones, and some very ancient, but there came in a zealous fellow with a counterfeit commission, that for avoiding superstition, hath not left one pennyworth nor penny breadth of brass upon all the tombs, of all the inscriptions, which had been many and costly. Glass, ancient, 56. Old church, position of, 42. Organ, 55. Porch, south, 34.
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- 19511
- author: Perkins, Thomas, Rev.
- title: Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings
- date: None
- words: 33601
- flesch: 68
- summary: This is exactly what one would expect to find: a central tower is almost always found in Norman churches, especially collegiate churches; and the pyramidal roof was almost certainly the usual form in which these early towers were finished. Next comes the #North Porch#, with a chamber above it--here, as in many other churches, the chief entrance into the building.
- keywords: aisle; aisle windows; altar; alterations; angle; arcading; arches; bay; bays; beaufort; beautiful; bishop; body; books; brass; builders; building; buttresses; canons; capitals; carved; carving; castle; central; central tower; century; century work; chamber; chantry; chapel; chapter; character; choir; choir aisle; christchurch; church; churches; churchyard; clerestory; consists; corner; corresponding; course; crypt; cut; date; day; days; dean; domestic; doors; doorway; dorset; doubt; draper; early; east; east end; east wall; east window; eastern; end; english; entrance; existing; exterior; face; fact; farther; feet; fifteenth; flat; floor; form; foundation; fourteenth; fourteenth century; gable; great; half; hand; headed; heads; height; henry; high; history; hospital; house; illustration; inscription; interior; john; king; lady; lady chapel; lancet; large; late; lead; left; length; level; library; light; little; loft; long; lord; low; marble; margaret; michael; middle; minster; modern; monument; mother; moulding; nave; nave aisle; new; nineteenth; norman; norman choir; norman church; norman work; north; north aisle; north choir; north porch; north transept; number; octagonal; old; opening; opposite; order; organ; original; outer; outside; page; parapet; parish; passage; perpendicular; peter; piers; piscina; place; plain; pointed; porch; portion; position; presbytery; present; priory; priory church; purbeck; remains; reredos; restoration; richard; rood; roof; room; round; runs; salisbury; screen; second; set; shafts; shows; similar; sir; small; south; south end; south wall; south window; space; spire; square; stage; staircase; stalls; stand; steps; stone; string; style; thirteenth; thomas; time; tomb; tower; town; tracery; transept; triforium; turret; upper; vaulting; vestry; vicars; view; viii; wall; west; west tower; west wall; western; western tower; width; william; wimborne; wimborne minster; windows; work; years
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- 33249
- author: Lebert, Marie
- title: Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album
- date: None
- words: 14142
- flesch: 87
- summary: Fortunatus (530-600), bishop of Poitiers, wrote in his Vie de Saint Pair (St. Pair's Life) that the cells of the early monks were built beside the sea. [Illustration] 013. Saint-Martin-le-Vieux.
- keywords: alain dermigny; angle; apse; arch; archivolt; attached; avranches; band; base; bay; bays; bréville; building; carved; century; choir; church; circular; claude; columns; dragey; east; external; flat; floor; gate; genêts; granite; human; illustration; inside; jean; kilometers; large; lebert; loup; léonard; marie; masonry; mer; meters; michel; molded; mont saint; nave; north; pair; photo; plan; rayon; road; romanesque; romanesque choir; romanesque church; romanesque gate; romanesque tower; row; saint; sartilly; schist; second; semi; sketch; small; south; square; sur; thick; thomas; torus; tower; transept; vains; village; wall; west; width; yquelon
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- 34256
- author: Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
- title: The Supply at Saint Agatha's
- date: None
- words: 8239
- flesch: 82
- summary: At the crossing of the old avenue with the stream of present traffic, in a city which, for obvious reasons, will not be identified by the writer of these pages, there stood--and still stands--the Church of Saint Agatha's. Saint Agatha's has long been distinguished for three things, its money, its music, and its soundness.
- keywords: 16mo; agatha; audience; boy; cents; chancel; choir; christ; church; city; clergyman; cold; country; day; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; fire; god; great; half; hands; head; heart; holy; house; life; light; little; long; lord; man; manner; men; moment; morning; old; paper; parish; pastor; peek; people; pew; poor; position; preacher; question; rector; room; saint; saint agatha; service; sexton; shame; sick; sir; snow; soul; square; storm; stranger; study; sunday; supply; thin; things; thought; time; town; usual; vestryman; voice; way; wet; wife; woman; words; years
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- 34772
- author: Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock
- title: Stained Glass Tours in France
- date: None
- words: 62333
- flesch: 66
- summary: The abrupt change in glass windows which took place at the beginning of the fourteenth century becomes less extraordinary when we recapitulate the various discoveries in the art and realise what an effect must have been caused by such a combination as that of (_a_) the chance-revealed yellow stain; (_b_) domestic use which required glass fit for small, well-lighted interiors; (_c_) Very interesting conclusions may be reached if we place side by side three figures, one taken from thirteenth century glass, another from a Limoges enamel made any time from the tenth to the thirteenth century, and the third from the famous mosaics of St. Mark's in Venice.
- keywords: 13th; 15th; 16th; 16th century; agreeable; altar; ambulatory; amiens; ancient; angers; appearance; architecture; arms; artists; attention; attractive; automobile; automobilist; background; battle; beautiful; beauty; beauvais; beginning; best; best glass; better; blue; book; borders; bourges; brilliant; broad; building; canopies; canopy; canopy window; case; cathedral; central; centre; centuries; century canopies; century glass; century glazing; century grisaille; century medallion; century panels; century tours; century windows; certain; chalons; change; chantilly; chapel; chapelle; charming; chartres; chief; choir; choir chapels; choir clerestory; choir windows; christ; church; churches; château; city; clerestory; clerestory windows; clermont; colour; coloured; coloured glass; combination; combined; complete; conches; constable; contain; contemporary; contrast; corner; country; course; crucifixion; dame; date; day; days; deal; decoration; delicate; delightful; design; detail; devoted; different; difficult; distance; distant; donors; double; drawing; earlier; early; early glass; east; eastern; ecouen; edifice; effect; elaborate; embrasures; end; england; english; entire; epoch; evreux; examples; excellent; eye; eymoutiers; fact; famous; feature; ferrand; field; fifteenth; figures; fine; finest; form; fourteenth; fourth; frame; france; french; french glass; gallery; general; gift; glass artist; glass windows; glazed; glazier; glazing; glorious; glow; golden; good; gorgeous; gothic; graceful; great; great church; greater; greatest; green; grey; grisaille; grisaille windows; group; half; hand; height; henry; high; hill; history; hold; house; idea; illumination; illustration; important; impression; influence; inspection; interesting; interior; italian; jean; jesse; journey; kilometres; kings; kneeling; lack; lady; lancets; laon; large; large windows; later; later glass; leads; left; life; light; like; limoges; lines; little; little glass; lofty; long; longer; look; louis; lower; making; manner; mans; marked; medallion windows; medallions; mediæval; memory; method; middle; modern glass; montmorency; mosaic; moulins; narrow; natural; nave; nave windows; near; new; north; northern; note; notice; noticeable; number; numerous; occasion; old; old glass; older; ones; opportunity; original; outside; page; panels; paris; particular; passing; perfect; period; personages; perspective; picture; picturesque; pieces; pilgrim; place; placing; plain; point; poitiers; portal; portraits; possible; preserved; purpose; quaint; quentin; quimper; railway; reader; reason; remains; renaissance; renaissance glass; result; rheims; rich; river; rose; rose windows; rouen; row; royal; satisfactory; scenes; school; second; sens; series; service; set; similar; sixteenth; size; small; smaller; soft; sort; south; space; splendid; stained; stained glass; ste; stone; street; strong; student; study; style; subject; surface; taste; thirteenth century; time; touches; tours; towers; town; train; transept; traveller; treatment; tree; triforium; trip; troyes; true; turn; twelfth century; type; unique; unusual; upper; use; view; virgin; visit; wall; way; wealth; west; western; white; white glass; wide; windows; wonderful; work; world; writer; years; yellow
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- 38274
- author: None
- title: Ecclesiastical Curiosities
- date: None
- words: 47004
- flesch: 67
- summary: Longfellow has several tender references to church bells. The inscriptions on church bells would make an interesting chapter.
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- 39814
- author: Belknap, Helen Olive
- title: The Church on the Changing Frontier: A Study of the Homesteader and His Church
- date: None
- words: 35472
- flesch: 72
- summary: The churches in this new western country must keep pace with their rapidly changing environment, and with elastic yet inclusive programs really become community churches. to country churches.
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