tailieunhanh - Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich

Norwich Cathedral stands on the site of no earlier church: it is to-day, in its plan and the general bulk of its detail, as characteristically Norman as when left finished by the hand of Eborard, the second bishop of Norwich. The church was founded by Herbert de Losinga, the first bishop, as the cathedral priory of the Benedictine monastery in Norwich (a sketch of its constitution at this period will be found in the Notes on the Diocese); the foundation-stone was laid in 1096 on a piece of land called Cowholme,--meaning a pasture surrounded by water,--and the church was dedicated to the Holy Trinity | Bell s Cathedrals The Cathedral Church of by C. H. B. Quennell 1 CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V Bell s Cathedrals The Cathedral Church of by C. H. B. Quennell The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bell s Cathedrals The Cathedral Church of Norwich by C. H. B. Quennell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Bell s Cathedrals The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See Author C. H. B. Quennell Release Date November 5 2006 EBook 19715 Language English Bell s Cathedrals The Cathedral Church of by C. H. B. Quennell 2 Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NORWICH CATHEDRAL Produced by Jonathan Ingram David Cortesi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Illustration Norwich Cathedral from the South-East. THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF NORWICH A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE EPISCOPAL SEE BY . QUENNELL Illustration Arms of Norwich WITH FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON GEORGE BELL SONS 1898 . WHITE AND CO. LIMITED RIVERSIDE PRESS EDINBURGH GENERAL PREFACE This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide-books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to the student of Archeology and History and yet not too technical in language for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist. To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each case would be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst the general sources of information which have been almost invariably found useful