_Amiens Cathedral_, its great height, 116. _Andrew, Saint_, his wells, 19; yields to his younger brother, 36. _Angers_, undercroft of the Bishop's palace at, 176. _Apses_, various kinds of, 130; their rarity in England, 130; use of, in Romanesque times, 181; more common in Normandy than in England, _ib._ _Archdeacon of Wells_, ancient house of, 142; its alienation, 150; recovery of the other property of, 150. _Archdeacons_, their rights under the charter of Elizabeth, 188. _Architects_, employment of professional, in the middle ages, 81. _Athelney_, prebend attached to the Abbey, 88. _Augustine_, his mission to Britain, 12. _Avalon_, see Glastonbury. _Axe_, the English frontier in 597, 13, 17. B. _Bangor Cathedral_, arrangement of towers at, 182. _Banwell_, history of the lordship, 27, 29, 31; Bishop's house at, 37. _Barlow, William_, Bishop, alienates the lands of the see, 149, 186; partly recovers them, 149. _Bath_, its Roman origin, 13, 36; taken by the West-Saxons, 36; church of, founded by Offa, 36, 177; monks brought in by Eadgar, _ib._; burned, 36, 47; bought by Bishop John, 36, 37, 166; see of Somersetshire removed to, _ib._; church rebuilt by Bishop John, 37; settlement between the Churches of Bath and Wells, 45; suppression of the Monastery, 46, 148; restoration of the Church in the seventeenth century, _ib._; works of Bishop Robert at, 46-48, 167, 168; date and style of the present church, 48; monks of, illegally elect Bishop Roger, 105; gradually neglected by the Bishops, 107; form of the west front, 125; alleged foundation of Osric, 177. _Bath and Wells_, origin of the title, 10, 45. _Battle Abbey_, lofty undercroft under the dormitory, 176. _Bayeux_, installation of the Bishop at, 158. _Beaufort, Cardinal_, enlarges the Hospital of Saint Cross, 163. _Beauvais Cathedral_, remains of the old church at, 79, 80; its great height, 116. _Beckington, Thomas_, Bishop, works of his executors; his various works, 145; removal and mutilation of his canopy, 153; his work in the cloisters, 181; his will, 182, 183; his gifts to the Chapter, 183. _Benefice_, meaning of the word, 59, 169. _Berengar_, agent of Archbishop Thomas, 173. _Beverley Minster_, compared with Wells, 124, 130; unreality of its west front, 128; east end of, 130; compared with Wells, 132. _Bird, Prior_, his works at Bath, 48. _Bishop_, his share in the daily distribution, 174; his right of visitation saved by the Elizabethan charter, 187; election of, under the charter, 187, 188.