Pièce Bonomi MSS 45.87 (verso) - Text on church at Alnwick

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Text on church at Alnwick:

• ink text on paper
• loose
• 15.7 x 11.5 cm
• [text]:

'The church at Alnwick a gothic building

once a beautiful and highly adorned

edifice but now from the injuditious

additions and alterations especially

that usual one of taking away

pillars in order to make the pulpit

more generally seen from all corners

of the church thus by throwing two arches

into one thus weak increas

ing the lateral pressure endangering

the roof which perhaps on that

account has been restored in the it was found

ornamental gothic necessary

to restore in the side isles

however the original oak beams remain'

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford