. History and antiquities of the cathedral churches of Great Britain : illustrated with a series of highly-finished engravings, exhibiting general and particular views, ground plans, and all the architectural features and ornaments in the various styles of building used in our ecclesiastical edifices . - ,v/; S7J& KA1, Wist entranceGecniaru. - Wonung prater., ? lordJiab? 5J. rax Tier J JkJUa ? Jhcr. -ept. KJ&; 36 Caf - - ! HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES CATHEDRAL CHURCH AND SEE eip. JLhe Cathedral of Ely, and the venerahle remains of the conventualchurch, furnish objects of contemplation
. History and antiquities of the cathedral churches of Great Britain : illustrated with a series of highly-finished engravings, exhibiting general and particular views, ground plans, and all the architectural features and ornaments in the various styles of building used in our ecclesiastical edifices . - ,v/; S7J& KA1, Wist entranceGecniaru. - Wonung prater., ? lordJiab? 5J. rax Tier J JkJUa ? Jhcr. -ept. KJ&; 36 Caf - - ! HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES CATHEDRAL CHURCH AND SEE eip. JLhe Cathedral of Ely, and the venerahle remains of the conventualchurch, furnish objects of contemplation and inquiry of singularinterest and importance. In the dreary solitude of the fens, at a periodwhen Ely was an obscure and isolated spot, a monastic society wasfounded by the enthusiasm of the devout Ethelreda, in a style ofextraordinary profusion and splendour. At once the lords and thespiritual directors of the scanty population by which they were sur-rounded, the monks of Ely commanded reverence by the ostentation oftheir riches, and obedience by the extent of their temporal their wealth and their reputation increased with the number andcharacter of their proselytes, so was their magnificence correspondentlyexhibited in the completion of religious edifices, possessing all the gran-deur of dimension, and all the beauty of decoration, which eccles
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