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THE HISTORICAL GROWTH OF THE
ENGLISH PARISH CHURCH
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
London: FETTER LANE,E.C.
C. F. CLAY, Manager
Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET
Berlin: A. ASHER AND CO.
Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS
New York: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO.,Ltd.
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THE HISTORICAL
GROWTH 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
PREFACE
This small book is intended to be a companionand complement to the writer’s book in thesame series on The Ground Plan of the EnglishParish Church. In that book the growth ofthe ground plan is treated with necessarily scantyreference to the circumstances to which, directly orindirectly, that growth is due. Some attempt ismade in the present volume to supply an accountof the historical conditions amid which our parishchurches were built, to say something of the builders,