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Roberts' Chester Guide [1858]

Chapter 154: FOOTNOTES.
By Hugh Roberts
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A revised guide to the city of Chester offers a compact historical survey and practical handbook for visitors, combining chapters on ancient Roman origins, ecclesiastical and municipal history, and detailed descriptions of walls, gates, cathedral, abbey, castle, rows, towers, baths and other antiquities. It enumerates public institutions, churches and dissenting chapels, civic buildings, cemeteries, and transport information, and provides lists of streets, distances, hotels, fares and railway access. The volume is illustrated with engravings and an annotated plan to assist sightseers and to record architectural features and antiquarian finds.

 

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FOOTNOTES.

[7]  Rev. Chancellor Raikes’ Introductory Lecture before the Chester Archæological Society.

[8]  This Earl was the first who assumed the present arms of Chester, three wheat-sheaves in a field azure.

[14]  Ormerod’s Cheshire, page 173.

[40]  The largest stone arch known, that which bears the nearest approach, is at Vieille Briode, which crosses the river Allien, in France, whose span is 183 feet, being 17 feet less than the Chester bridge.  It was erected in 1454, by Grenier.

[48]  Hemingway’s ‘History of Chester.’

[50]  Hemingway’s ‘History of Chester.’

[51]  Rev. Chancellor Raikes.

[75]  Mr. W. Ayrton, on the Norman Remains of the Cathedral.