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Title: Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory
A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings

Author: Thomas Perkins

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Language: English

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WIMBORNE MINSTER AND CHRISTCHURCH PRIORY

A Short History of Their Foundation and Description of Their Buildings

by

THE REV. THOMAS PERKINS
M.A., F.R.A.S.
Rector of Turnworth, Dorset

With Illustrations from Photographs by the Author

[Illustration]

London George Bell & Sons 1902
First Edition 1899
Second Edition, Revised, 1902

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

When writing the chapters of the present volume which treat of Wimborne
Minster, the author consulted the last edition of Hutchins' "History of
Dorset," which contains a considerable amount of somewhat ill-arranged
information on the subject, verifying all the descriptions by actual
examination of the building; similarly, when preparing the part of
this volume dealing with Christchurch Priory, he made some use of
"The Memorials of Christchurch Twynham," written originally by the Rev.
Mackenzie Walcott, F.S.A., and revised after his death in 1880 by Mr B.
Edmund Ferrey, F.S.A. He also consulted papers on the subject that have
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