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Title: An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, G. Gilbert (George Gilbert), 1839-1897
Subjects: Church architecture Church architecture
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall and co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Souls, p. 68), was most completely, not to say ruthlessly executed.The magnificent reredos was now defaced. Every one of its statues was thrown down and broken to pieces,while the projecting portions of the structure were chipped away till the whole was left a ruin. The Com-missioners ordered further the removal of all altars, images, statues, tabernacles, the things they call organs,and all similar monuments of superstition and idolatry. Those works of religious art which had escaped theCommissioners of 1549, archbishop Parker, as visitor of the college, was at considerable pains to get destroyed,and the account of his correspondence with the Warden, given in Professor Burrows book (p. 86), is instructiveand curious. All the church plate in possession of the college, with the exception of some ten pieces, isordered by him to be defaced and broken, and by a later order, all copes, vestments, albs, missals, books,and crosses are to be utterly defaced. kkk cf. p. 146. p. 6. PLATE XXXIV.
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CHRISTCHURCH, HANTS. ALT.\R-PIECE IN THE PRIORV-CHURCH. THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. beinge verye finely gilted, but the ornaments for the Principall Feast, which was the Assump-tion of our Lady, were all of white damaske, all besett with pearles and pretious stones, whichmade the ornaments more rich and gorgeous to behold. The reredos of Westminster abbey was another instance of a similar erection ; of this theback alone (facing towards the saints chapel) is preserved. The front having been strippedof its imagery and otherwise injured, was, in the time of Queen Anne, further mutilated, inorder to make room for an altar-piece of marble. When this was removed, in 1820,™° duringthe preparations for the coronation of George IV., it was discovered, says Neale,°° thatthe west front of the screen was wrought in a similar style of sculpture to the east front, manyremnants of sculptural ornament, including various pieces of a painted and gilt cornice, frag-ments of gilt fo

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