BLENDED ARCHITECTURAL STYLES. - Etheldreda began to build Ely Minster in 673 but this teas mainly of wood and the present cathedral was begun in 1083 and took more than three hundred years to complete. As in many other. English churches whose building occupied a long period of time, Ely incorporates a series of styles of architecture, blended and mellowed into a perfect whole by the passage of the centuries.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 182, 2 July 1938, Page 6
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69BLENDED ARCHITECTURAL STYLES. – Etheldreda began to build Ely Minster in 673 but this teas mainly of wood and the present cathedral was begun in 1083 and took more than three hundred years to complete. As in many other. English churches whose building occupied a long period of time, Ely incorporates a series of styles of architecture, blended and mellowed into a perfect whole by the passage of the centuries. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 182, 2 July 1938, Page 6
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