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The Cambridge Manuals of Science and

Literature

THE GROUND PLAN OF THE

ENGLISH PARISH CHURCH


CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

London: FETTER LANE, E.C.

C. F. CLAY, Manager

Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET

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Hedon, Yorkshire: nave from N.W.


THE GROUND PLAN

OF THE ENGLISH

PARISH CHURCH

BY

A. HAMILTON THOMPSON

M.A., F.S.A.

Cambridge:

at the University Press

1911


Cambridge:

PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521