History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, Vol. 4 of 4 PDF Download

Author: James Storer
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333614157
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Get Book Here

Book Description
Excerpt from History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, Vol. 4 of 4: Illustrated With a Series of Highly-Finished Engravings, Exhibiting General and Particular Views, Ground Plans, and All the Architectural Features and Ornaments in the Various Styles of Building Used in Our Ecclesiastical Edifices Although there is cause for conjecturing, from the words of venerable Bede, that several of the principal churches erected in South Britain, shortly after the conversion of Ethelbert, a.d. 561, were constructed of stone, it Will be recollected that the first ecclesiastical edifice, which he positively describes as being formed of that material, was the old church of St. Peter's, at York, begun about the year 697. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.