An introduction to English church architecture from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London, New York, [etc] H. Milford, Oxford University Press · leaf 89
REQUIREMENTS OF A GREAT MEDIAEVAL CHURCH 49 At St. Gall there are said to have been seventy altars ; the plan, however, does not shew anything" like so many. There was certainly a tendency to excessive multiplicity of altars; so much so that in a.d. 805 Charlemagne laid down " non superabundent in… … , F. H. C St. Ktheldreda, St. Frideswide and others ; there were St. Christopher hermits, like St. Guthlac, and Celtic missioners innumer- able in Wales and Cornwall. Moreover, there was more than one aspect from which a dedication might be regarded ; at Durham there was both a Jesus altar and an…
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