Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2Turner, Dawson
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Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2
Turner, Dawson
Architecture -- France -- Normandy; Normandy (France) -- Antiquities; Normandy (France) -- Description and travel
_St. Adrian_, Chapel of, near Rouen.
_St. Clotilda_, her fountain, at Andelys
still worshipped there.
_St. Evroul_, abbey of, founded by William de Gerouis,
residence of Ordericus Vitalis.
_St. Georges de Bocherville_, abbey of, founded by Ralph de Tancarville,
its history,
abbey church described
sculpture in ditto
chapter-house.
_St. Germain_, church of, at Pont Audemer.
_St. Germain de Blancherbe_, church of.
_St. Gervais_, church of, at Falaise.
_St. Giles_, church of, at Evreux.
_St. Jacques_, church of at Lisieux.
_St. John_, church of, at Caen.
_St. Lascivus_, bishop of Bayeux.
_St. Lupus_, bishop of Bayeux, so called from destroying the wolves.
_St. Maimertus_, subterranean chapel dedicated to, in Bayeux cathedal.
_St. Michael_, church of, in the suburb of Vaucelles, at Caen.
_St. Nicholas_, church of at Caen
its roof like those of the Irish stone-roofed chapels.
_St. Peter_, church of at Caen
sculpture upon the capital of one of the columns.
_St. Philibert_, founder of Jumieges.
_St. Regnobert_, bishop of Bayeux, his chasuble kept in the cathedral,
domestic animals blessed on his feast-day.
_St. Stephen_, church of, at Caen.
_St. Stephen_, abbey of, at Caen, its privileges
now used as the college.
_St. Stephen, abbey church of_, at Caen, described
formed on the the Roman model
burial-place of the Conqueror.
_St. Taurinus_, founder of Evreux cathedral
his fight with the devil,
his shrine
crypt, in which he was buried.
_St. Taurinus, abbey of_ at Evreux
its privileges
ancient architecture in the church
crypt.
_St. Vitalis_, his feast celebrated annually at Evreux.
_St. Ursinus_, privileges enjoyed by the Canons, at Lisieux, on his vigil
and feast-day.
_Saxons_, established about Bayeux, where many words from their language
still exist.
_Screens_, of rare occurrence in French churches.
_Sculpture_, in the abbey church of St. Georges de Bocherville,
in the chapter-house of the same abbey,
in the abbey church of Jumieges,
on the capitals in the church at Gournay,
on a capital in the abbey church at Bernay,
over the high altar at Bernay,
on a tomb in Lisieux cathedral,
on a capital in St. Peter's at Caen,
on the capitals of the pillars in the crypt at Bayeux cathedral,
_Seal_, supposed to belong to Matilda, wife of the Conqueror,
_Sheep_, Norman breed of,
_Siege_, of Château Gaillard,
_Statues_, in the chapter-house of the abbey of St. Georges de Bocherville,
of William the Conqueror, at Caen,
_Stothard, C.A._, his drawings of the Bayeux tapestry,
his opinion on its antiquity,
_String-course_, remarkable, in the church of _Notre Dame des Prés_, at
Pont Audemer,
_Superstitions_, still remaining in Normandy,
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