In speaking to-night on the above subject, apart front a personal knowledge of many of these medieval buildings, I have necessarily used extracts from books dealing with the subject, some of which I am quoting verbatim.
I gratefully acknowledge at the end of my address the sources and the authors, to whom my sincere thanks are due.
Professor A. Hamilton Thompson says: "There seems little ground for the belief that bodies of travelling Masons came from foreign countries to assist in building our Cathedrals.
In isolated cases the names of Lombardic sculptors occur, but it appears that in most eases the local workmen were employed, masons who had a thorough knowledge of the particular freestone obtained from the quarries usually in the vicinity of the proposed structure."
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1934 - The Medieval Cathedrals and.Churches of England - Their History, Shrines, Tombs and Legends -Bro. HERBERT H. SEATON.
