Wood Carvings in English Churches: I. Stalls and Tabernacle Work. II. Bishop's Thrones and Chancel Chairs.Bond, Francis
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Wood Carvings in English Churches: I. Stalls and Tabernacle Work. II. Bishop's Thrones and Chancel Chairs.
Bond, Francis
Choir stalls; Church decoration and ornament; Wood-carving
_Architectural Association Journal._--"The blocks, taken from photographs,
are of an excellence really amazing, when the difficulties such subjects
present to the camera are considered. A most delightful book."
_Yorkshire Post._--"Another of the valuable series of monographs on Church
Art in England, and the most entertaining of all."
_Architects' and Builders' Journal._--"An exceedingly interesting volume
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very near to popular life in the Middle Ages."
_Liverpool Courier._--"Another of the admirably written and illustrated art
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_Birmingham Post._--"This well illustrated volume is not only a valuable
technical monograph, but also an important contribution to the history of
social life and thought in the Middle Ages. Mr Bond's treatment of the
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the book is great."
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Into all the details of this varied and most puzzling subject he goes with
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in Mr Bond's work, are admirable."
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Notes
[1] Harry Sirr in _Art Journal_, 1883, 329.
[2] Wickenden, _Archæological Journal_, 1881, pp. 43-61.
[3] Canon Church in _Archæologia_, lv. 326.
[4] _Dictionnaire raisonné_, viii. 464.
[5] C. R. Peers in _Victoria County History of Northants_, ii. 445.
[6] Illustrated in the writer's _Screens and Galleries_, 2.
[7] Faber's _Poems_, pp. 227-229.
[8] See the writer's _Westminster Abbey_, 48.
[9] For plans of St Gall, Kirkstall, Westminster, Canterbury, Exeter, York,
see the writer's _Gothic Architecture in England_.
[10] For an account of the working of the system of Secular Canons in the
English cathedrals see Canon Church's paper in _Archæologia_, lv.;
Professor Freeman's _Cathedral Church of Wells_; Mr A. F. Leach on
_Beverley Minster_ in vols. 98 and 100 of the Surtees Society, and on
_Southwell Minster_ in the 1891 volume of the Camden Society; and Rev. J.
T. Fowler, D.C.L., on _Ripon Minster_ in vols. 64, 74, 78, 81 of the
Surtees Society.
[11] See Mr A. F. Leach's _Memorials of Beverley Minster_, Surtees Society,
vols. 98 and 108.
[12] Views of galleried choirs may be seen in Britton's _Cathedral
Antiquities_; Norwich, ii. 13, Oxford, ii. 10.
[13] Illustrated in Maeterlinck, _La genre satirique dans la sculpture
flamande et wallonne_, page 12.
[14] See Viollet-le-Duc's _Dictionnaire_, viii. 464.
[15] See C. R. B. King in _Index_ to _Spring Gardens Sketch Book_, ii. 46,
and Plate XLVI.
[16] Hope's _Rochester Cathedral_, pp. 110, 111.
[17] It is illustrated in Professor Lethaby's _Westminster Abbey_, p. 23,
from Sandford's _Coronation of James II._, and is reproduced above.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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