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. Cathedral antiquities . ,T;^miv,, I [ ^^ UeasuiL-d ft Brawn, kv ;, i&^.oj:, ... HE IKE® HMD) SATEHBOTL&X g SECTX©!* 2E^: B3C EHS, LADX CHAPEL & CJ2YPT HOOEEfG EAST ? To E0WAHD HAycocK1 ESQ?j4BCWT£CTi Shrewsbury;, this plate as a mark of esteem by the . f AUTHOR. J,tmdiw Riblixhed-&e>vJ.,W3C,by Longman* .£ Cflhtiwirtzrfioiv . J le Efeux Ic. BlTJltcd fy Burnett t .<. TCKBartk-rt del JjignrrcB by Jilo Keu: To SIR mmm SCtnJAMORE SraNHora, of Eohue XactyFarir,33ergFoi-dshii-e, thia jJale is magjbed Tjy the vxrxmnt. ,Jlil-hs/istf .Tun,-Jj!\il, /-( X- <? J\w. JTayWard .Inn; CLOISTERS, CHAPTER HOUSE. 53 From this brief account of the interior of the Lady Chapel, and from theengravings, a stranger, and an admirer of Christian architecture, will lamentto learn that this fine room is filled and lumbered with old bookcases, andthat its walls, columns, windows, and mouldings are obscured and smearedover with repeated coats of whitewash. Whilst many thousands of poundswere so tastelessly expended in building a west front, and the upper part ofthe nave, every lover of architecture must deplore the present neglected anddilapidated state of this chapel. Five or six hundred pounds, judiciouslyexpended, would protect it from further injury, and remove all its disfigure-ments ; but I can almost excuse the Chapter from c
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