A print from a disbound book of England & Wales published 1900. Blank on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size approx 8.75" x 6.5" or 22.5cm x 16.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1900 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
ST. ASAPH CATHEDRAL.
This old building occupies a tongue of land between the rivers Elwy and Clwyd, a strategic position which has brought trouble to it repeatedly. No one knows when the first religious building was erected, but a cathedral then known as having been long existent was burnt down in 1282. It was rebuilt in the reign of Edward I., but of this Norman work only one stone remains, 'the capital of a shaft now built into the wall of the nave. All was destroyed in the Welsh troubles of 1402, and most of the older parts now left are of Bishop Redman's restoration in 1482. Some of the cathedral work is believed to have been carried away and built into the parish church, ,as, for instance, the west window of the south aisle in the latter. The present cathedral presents a great mixture of different stone, showing clearly its broken and troublous history.