Handbook to the Cathedral Church of StPeter, York; being notes on the architecture, stained glass, shields and monuments . o ^. Hi o O O tod < CO K CM d< THE WOODEN CHURCH. The increase of the Enghsh in the Northumbriancapital of York, had impelled many of its Celtic inhabitantsto move westward to their own people. As there would bevery few Christian Celts left in York, Ethelberga may haverestored one of the churches on the Bishop Hill, andworshipped in it under Paulinus, as she had formerly doneat the church (St. Martins) at Canterbury. King Eadwine was not easily converted to the Chris
Handbook to the Cathedral Church of StPeter, York; being notes on the architecture, stained glass, shields and monuments . o ^. Hi o O O tod < CO K CM d< THE WOODEN CHURCH. The increase of the Enghsh in the Northumbriancapital of York, had impelled many of its Celtic inhabitantsto move westward to their own people. As there would bevery few Christian Celts left in York, Ethelberga may haverestored one of the churches on the Bishop Hill, andworshipped in it under Paulinus, as she had formerly doneat the church (St. Martins) at Canterbury. King Eadwine was not easily converted to the Christianfaith, so Pope Boniface sent him a letter, with the king summoned his council before the greatidol temple at Goodmanham, near Londesborough, to discussthe subject, when Paulinus succeeded in converting king andcouncil. THE FOEMEE EDIFICES. THE WOODEN CHURCH OF ST. PETER, 627. Near tliirteeu hundred years ago, the placeWhere now York Minster stands in all its graceWas holy ground : for here there stood, we read,A wooden church, simple and rude indeed. G. FREKtH, 1869. York Minster owes its-orig
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