1. Etheldreda and the Shrine Architecture of Ely
... doctor, was found to be healed. The linen cloths in which her body was wrapped were as fresh as the day she had been buried. Her body was placed in a white stone sarcophagus of Roman origin, found at Grantchester and reburied. Sexburga's daughter, Eormenhilda, widow of Wulfere, king of the Mercians became the third Abbess of Ely. Following her was her ... aisle of the chancel by covered walkways. This new structure was built in an exuberant 'Decorated' Gothic style. Around most of the wall are niches, flanked by pilasters of Purbeck marble and covered by sinuous ogee arches which projec...
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