Description of the Ancient Glass in Credenhill Church, Herefordshire |
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Description of the Ancient Glass in Credenhill Church, Herefordshire Francis Tebbs Havergal,Henry Graves Bull No preview available - 2015 |
Description of the Ancient Glass in Credenhill Church, Herefordshire Francis Tebbs Havergal No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 10 - was builded about a man's height, all of stone, then upwards of timber plain, within which was a chest of iron, containing the bones of Thomas Becket, scull and all, with the wound of his death, and the piece cut out of his scull laid in the same wound.
Page 20 - West-Saxons the very existence of the city came to an end. Its ruins show that the place was plundered and burned, while the bones which lie scattered among them tell their tale of the flight and massacre of its inhabitants, of women and children hewn down in the streets, and wretched fugitives stifled in the hypocausts whither they had fled with their little hoards for shelter.3 A British poet in verses still left to us sings piteously the death-song of Uriconium, "the white town in the valley,"...
Page 22 - Kenchestre standeth about iii myles or more above Hereford, upward on the same side of the ryver that Hereford doth ; yet is yt almost a myle fro the ripe of Wy. This towne is far more auncyent then Hereford, and was celebrated yn the Romaynes tyme, as...
Page 10 - The timber work of this shrine, on the other side, was covered with plates of gold, damasked and embossed with wires of gold, garnished with broches, images, angels, chains, precious stones, and great orient pearls, the spoil of which shrine (in gold and jewels of an...
Page 10 - ... images, angels, chains, precious stones, and great oriental pearls: the spoils of which shrine in gold and jewels of an inestimable value, filled two great chests, one of which six or eight men could do no more than convey out of the church. All which was taken to the king's use, and the bones of St. Thomas, by command of Lord Cromwell, were there burnt to ashes, in September, 1538, of Henry VIII. the thirtieth.
Page 23 - Beauties of England and Wales." These gentlemen say of it: — "Towards the east end is a massive fragment remaining, of what is supposed to have been a Roman Temple. It consists of a large mass of cement, of almost indissoluble texture, in which are imbedded rough stones irregularly intermixed with others that have been squared. This fragment is called ' the chair ' from a niche which is yet perfect.
Page 23 - Hardwick, the owner, it appears that the soil within the area is veiy dark, almost black, and quantities of charred wood, and molten iron and glass, have been found. The stones having been removed from the surface as deep as the plough penetrates, very good crops of corn are now raised. The land is loose and friable, and fine as a garden. In the drought of summer, streets and foundations of houses are quite visible in the verdure. The principal street ran in a direct line through the town from east...
Page 32 - This Roman station is not mentioned either by Ptolemy or Antonine. It is named, however, with five others, by the anonymous geographer of Ravenna, in his Chorography, as existing between Caerleon and Magna Baxter, in his Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum, placed it at Stretton Grandison, and it appears here on all the old maps.
Page 30 - Among the articles which he has secured, are half of a stone hand-mill, or quern, pierced with a hole ; the upper part of an earthenware pounding mill, with a lip or rim ; fragments of Roman pottery ; a bronze ring; and a third brass of Constantine the Great, with a square altar on the reverse. At the north-east corner of the...
Page 28 - During the course of the last summer, in widening a road that crosses the land, several skeletons were discovered ; and also the remains of a stone wall, apparently the front of a building; the stones were well worked, and of considerable size.