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Of particular interest at this time, due to the current exhibition at St. Paul's Cathedral of Ecclesiastical Art, is the small roundell of stained glass exhibited in the Fogg Museum. This interesting example of eighteen century glass work is off the generally traversed corridors, and it is therefore wise...
However, the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral in 1926, on viewing the photograph of the Fogg Museum roundell felt that this did not represent the scene first mentioned, as the St. Thomas windows now in situs at the Cathedral do not represent scenes connected with St. Thomas life, but with the...
That the figure of the saint either baptizing or blessing the figures in front of him is an archbishop is attested by his pall. Therefore it might be St. Dunston or St. Alphage, both of whom are represented in Canterbury Cathedral by a series of scenes from their lives. However...
Among the winners of the Newdigate prizes have been a number of famous men. In 1812, Henry Hart Miliman won the prize for a poem entitled the "Belvidere Apollo"; in 1832, Roundell Palmer, now Lord Selborne, won the prize for his "Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of...
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