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Title: Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.]
A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See

Author: H. J. L. J. Masse

Release Date: June 5, 2008 [EBook #25682]

Language: English

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[Illustration: GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL, FROM THE ROOF OF ST. JOHN'S
CHURCH.]

THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF
GLOUCESTER

A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC
AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
EPISCOPAL SEE

BY H. J. L. J. MASSE, M.A.

AUTHOR OF "TEWKESBURY ABBEY" AND
"DEERHURST PRIORY," ETC.

WITH FORTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1905

_First Published January 1899_
_Second Edition August 1900_
_Reprinted January 1905_

_The Riverside Press Limited, 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 Archaeology 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
are:--(1) the great county histories, the value of which, especially in
questions of genealogy and local records, is generally recognised; (2)
the numerous pa