The Stranger's Handbook to Chester and Its Environs: Containing a short sketch of its history and antiquities, a descriptive walk round the walls, and a visit to the cathedral, castle, and Eaton Hall.Hughes, Thomas
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The Stranger's Handbook to Chester and Its Environs: Containing a short sketch of its history and antiquities, a descriptive walk round the walls, and a visit to the cathedral, castle, and Eaton Hall.
Hughes, Thomas
Chester (England) -- Guidebooks
The south aisle of the Choir and Lady Chapel has all its windows adorned
with stained glass, the one at the east end being an obituary memorial
for the late Hugh Robert Hughes, Esq., of the Bache, erected by his son,
inheritor from his uncle, Lord Dinorben, of Kinmel Park, Flintshire.
Obituary windows to the Humberston and Anson families, and two others
piously erected by the present worthy Dean, complete the adornment of
this aisle. Dean Anson has done more to beautify his Cathedral than all
his predecessors put together! Under an indented arch in the east wall
recline the dust and ashes of one of the abbots of St. Werburgh, the slab
adorned with a cross _floree_. In the centre of this aisle stands an
altar-tomb, once built into the wall of the Sedilia. This tomb tradition
assigns to Henry IV. of Germany; but it appears that monarch died and was
buried in his own dominions: other and better authority surmises it to be
the tomb of one of the later abbots.
From this aisle we pass into the south wing of the Transept, time out of
mind appropriated to the parish CHURCH OF ST. OSWALD. So early as the
ninth century, a Church existed here, independent of the Abbey; but on
the enlargement of the latter in the thirteenth century, St. Oswald’s
became incorporated with the Abbey, as its southern transept. This was
the Church, the functions of which were transferred by the monks to St.
Nicholas Chapel, now the MUSIC HALL; but the parishioners could not
forget their first love, and soon wormed their way back again to St.
Oswald’s. The Church contains some handsome monuments, worthy the
attention of the visitor.
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