The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . I. %.///^^^..,/.v. :^:^ ^ -ilsliMl. ?ir i/ie Pf^ipriflarsjyn U . SELBY CHURCH, YORKSHIRE. The conventual church of Selby was made parochial byletters patent, dated the 20th of March, in the year 1618,the sixteenth of James the First, and a minister was there-unto appointed by the archbishop of York. The remains of this noble pile, now used as the parishchurch, shew it to have been a most noble building, ere
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . I. %.///^^^..,/.v. :^:^ ^ -ilsliMl. ?ir i/ie Pf^ipriflarsjyn U . SELBY CHURCH, YORKSHIRE. The conventual church of Selby was made parochial byletters patent, dated the 20th of March, in the year 1618,the sixteenth of James the First, and a minister was there-unto appointed by the archbishop of York. The remains of this noble pile, now used as the parishchurch, shew it to have been a most noble building, erectedat different times, and in different styles of nave appears to be the most ancient part; the choir isof a newer erection. The whole length of the structure istwo hundred and sixty-seven feet, the breadth fifty feet, andthe length of the transept one hundred feet; the east andwest ends of the pile being at equal distances from the pil-lars which support the tower, from which arose a steeple ;but that fell down on the 30th of March, 1690, about sixoclock in the morning, and by its fall destroyed a part of thechurch, particularly the south end of the transept,
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