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Notes On the Churches of Cheshire Stephen Richard Glynne,James Augustus Atkinson No preview available - 2018 |
Notes on the Churches of Cheshire Stephen Richard Glynne,James Augustus Atkinson No preview available - 2017 |
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altar tomb anno Anno Domini arcade Audlem battlement belfry windows brass Brereton buttresses capitals carved ceiling chalice chancel chancel arch character Cheshire Chester Churchwardens clerestory corbels debased Decorated doorway Early English east end east window embattled five lights flagon foliated font four lights Furness Abbey Hall mark head Heswall inscription interior John late Perpendicular lofty modern monument nave nave and chancel niche north aisle north side obiit octagonal octagonal piers ogee panneled parapet Parish paten peal of six pews piscina plate armour pointed arches Prestbury rebuilt registers begin RICHARD COPLEY CHRISTIE roof Rudhall shafts shields side aisles Silver Communion Plate six bells south aisle south chapel south porch south side south wall square square-headed stained glass stone Thomas three lights tower arch tracery transept transoms trefoil Tudor arches vestry Wardens west end west gallery west tower western tower window of three wood screen
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Page 13 - I to the Church the living call, and to the grave do summon all, AR 1728.
Page 74 - Panis enim Dei est qui de caelo descendit, et dat vitam mundo.
Page 73 - ... and before the time of Henry VII., the foundations of parliamentary government had been laid. The union of the houses of York and Lancaster under Henry VII. begins a new period in English history. Part of his reign was disturbed by Perkin Warbeck and other pretenders to the throne, in support of whose claims the turbulent nobles found vent for their restlessness. But the greater part of his long reign was distinguished from preceding reigns as a time of...
Page 122 - Sais, a British nobleman, and lineally descended from Tudor Trevor, Earl of Hereford.
Page 79 - ... Cheshire. We visited Macclesfield, but I forgot its factories, its ribbons and sarcenets, silks and satins and velvets because of the valiant Leghs. Two of them sleep in the old church of St. Michael, under a brass that states in a stanza ending as abruptly as human life itself : "Here lyeth the body of Perkin a Legh That for King Richard the death did die, Betray'd for righteousness; And the bones of Sir Peers his sone, That with King Henrie the fift did wonne In Paris.
Page 72 - In the chapel at the east end of the south aisle is the pew of Lord Stanley of Alderley.