. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . llivant, during whose episcopacy therestoration took place. The Lady Chapel is an early example of the transitionfrom Early English to Decorated. About 1836 it was seriously proposed to unite Llandaff to Bristol, whichwould have given the coup de grace to the unfortunate see ; but from this it wassaved, and under its last two bishops, Copleston and Ollivant, the new era 1840 and 1843 two important Acts were passed, which resuscitated the deansoffice; and fortunate, indeed, has LlandafP been in
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . llivant, during whose episcopacy therestoration took place. The Lady Chapel is an early example of the transitionfrom Early English to Decorated. About 1836 it was seriously proposed to unite Llandaff to Bristol, whichwould have given the coup de grace to the unfortunate see ; but from this it wassaved, and under its last two bishops, Copleston and Ollivant, the new era 1840 and 1843 two important Acts were passed, which resuscitated the deansoffice; and fortunate, indeed, has LlandafP been in its deans—the first three,Bruce-Knight, Conybcare, geologist and archaeologist, and Williams, successfullycarrying out the restoration to its final completion. They gave their wholeenergies to the noble work of raising their ruined minster from the has well been said: There may be other churches which in some pointscome nearer to ideal perfection, but then there is none which has in the sameway risen to a new life out of a state of such hopeless ruin. E. A. FiSIIBOUKNE. J .1. RUINS OF ST. GERMAN S.(from a Photograph by Messrs. Poulton und Son, 1 ST. GERMAN8
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