History of the Cathedral Church of Wells: As Illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old FoundationFreeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
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History of the Cathedral Church of Wells: As Illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old Foundation
Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
Wells Cathedral
_Lichfield Cathedral_, apse of, 130;
east end compared with Wells, 132;
present good arrangement of, 158;
choir screen at, 159;
octagonal Chapter-house at, 176.
_Lincoln Cathedral_, style of, 75;
said never to have been consecrated, 77;
residence kept by the dignitaries at, 92;
effect of lowness in the inside, 116;
loss of the spires at, 118, 129;
unreality of the west front of, 125, 128;
arrangement of the east end, 131;
effect of lowness in the interior, 133;
octagonal Chapter-house at, 176.
_Llandaff Cathedral_, style of, 75;
no Residentiaries ever founded at, 85;
west front of, 125, 126;
present good arrangement of, 156-158, 190;
system of Prebendaries and Vicars, 17;
the Archdeacon President of the Chapter, 169;
form of the Chapter-house, 176.
_Long Sutton_, lost prebend of, 174.
_Lorraine_, or Lotharingia, meaning of the name, 30;
canonical rule of, 32.
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_Malmesbury Abbey_, original west front of, 181;
arrangement of tower at, 182.
_Manchester_, collegiate church becomes cathedral, 16;
suppressed and restored, 186.
_Margam Abbey_, octagonal Chapter-house at, 176.
_Mark_ granted to the Church of Wells by the Lady Eadgyth, 31.
_Mary_, Queen, property of the Church recovered under, 149, 150.
_Master of the Fabric_, office of, 5-7.
_Master_, technical use of the name, 88.
_Matthew Paris_, his account of the Church of Westminster, 170;
of the earthquake at Wells, 171;
of the consecration of various churches, _ib._
_Mendip_, its early state, 17.
_Midelton_ or _Milton_, timber fetched from, 180.
_Minor Canon_, title unknown at Wells, 140;
use of, elsewhere, 183.
_Monasteries_, suppression of, 21;
effects of, at Ely, Peterborough, and elsewhere, 22.
_Monks_, original character of, 20.
_Monmouth, James_, Duke of, doings of his followers at Wells, 4.
_Morganwg_, meaning of the name, 17, 164.
_Mounterye, College of_, see Chantry Priests.
_Muchelney_ prebend attached to the Abbey, 88.
_Mudgeley_, granted to the Church of Wells by the Lady Eadgyth, 31.
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_Nave_, proper place for the congregation, 154, 155;
plea for its proper use at Wells, 157-160.
_New Foundation_, Cathedral Churches of, meaning of the name, 53;
greater influence of the Crown in, 54.
_Nicolas the Fifth_, Pope, his bull about payments made by
Residentiaries, 175.
_Non-residence_, origin of, 58;
growth of, 87.
_Non-residentiary Canons_, origin of, 89;
value of the class, 89, 90, 150;
defrauded of their rights at Wells by the charter of Elizabeth, 151;
retention of their rights at York, 152;
their position under the Elizabethan charter, 187, 188;
general question as to their rights, 189.
_Norman Architecture_, spread of, after the Conquest, 67.
_Norman Conquest_, its effects on the Church, 35.
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