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• Antiquarian essays (W. C. Hemmons, 1895), by John Taylor, Frank G. Carpenter, and William George (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cathedrals, abbeys and shrines of history and romance ([London, 1925), by London Midland and Scottish Railway Company and William Henry Walton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Monasticon anglicanum; a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in any manner connected with religious houses in England. Together with a particular account of their respective foundations, grants, and donations, and a full statement of their possessions, as well temporal as spiritual. (Bohn, 1846), by William Dugdale, Richard C. Taylor, Bulkeley Bandinel, Henry Ellis, John Caley, John Stevens, and Roger Dodsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The present state of ecclesiastical architecture in England. (C. Dolman, 1843), by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monasticon Anglicanum, or, The history of the ancient abbies, and other monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches in England and Wales. With divers French, Irish, and Scotch monasteries formerly relating to England. (Sam Keble; Hen. Rhodes, 1693), by William Dugdale, John Stevens, Roger Dodsworth, and James Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monasticon anglicanum: or, The history of the ancient abbies, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales: also of all such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries as in any manner relate to those in England ... Illustrated with the original cuts of the cathedral and collegiate churches, and habits of the religious and military orders. (Printed by R. Harbin for D. Browne and J. Smith [etc.], 1718), by William Dugdale, John Stevens, and Roger Dodsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquities of Great-Britain : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing (Printed by James Phillips in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, and published by the proprietors T. Hearne and W. Byrne, 1786), by Thomas Hearne, James Phillips, and William Byrne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquities of Great Britain : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing (Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807), by Thomas Hearne and William Byrne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parish churches on the sites of Romano-British chapels, and the lines of the Roman survey. (Brentford printing and publishing co., ltd., 1909), by Montagu Sharpe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Description of the figures in the pocket chart of British architecture, with a table showing the duration of each style, and introductory observations on the characteristic features by which the dates of our cathedrals and other churches may be easily known (G. Bell, 1844), by Archibald Barrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Berwicks beauty, or, A church erecting there (London : [s.n.], 1650), by Robert Denton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Litchfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, Peterborough, Canterbury, Rochester, London, Winchester, Chichester, Norwich, Salisbury, Wells, Exeter, St. Davids, Landaff, Bangor, and St. Asaph : containing an history of their foundations, builders, antient monuments, and inscriptions, endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages ... : with an exact account of all the churches and chapels in each diocese, distinguished under their proper archdeaconries and deanries, to what saints dedicated, who patrons of them, and to what religious houses appropriated : the whole extracted from numerous collections out of the registers of every particular see ... : and illustrated with thirty-two curious draughts ... : in three volumes (Printed for T. Osborne ... ;, 1742), by Browne Willis, M. Burghers, John Harris, Thomas Bacon, and Thomas Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pandectae coenobiorum Benedictinorum, Cluniacensium, Cisterciensium, Carthusianorum (Typis Richardi Hodgkinsonne, 1655), by William Dugdale, Thomas Newcomb, Alice Warren, Richard Hodgkinson, Richard Hall, Richard Rawlinson, Edward Mascall, Thomas Johnson, Richard Newcourt, Robert Vaughan, Daniel King, Wenceslaus Hollar, and Roger Dodsworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chronological chart of Anglican church architecture (R. Sunter, 1844), by Francis Bedford (page images at HathiTrust)

• History and antiquities of the cathedral churches of Great Britain. Illustrated with ... engravings, exhibiting general and particular views, ground plans, and all the architectural features and ornaments in the various styles of building used in our ecclesiastical edifices. (Rivingtons [etc.], 1814), by James Storer and Henry Sargant Storer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cathedrals of Great Britain, their history and architecture (J. M. Dent & company;, 1902), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cathedrals; with seventy-four illustrations by photographic reprocution and seventy-four drawings. (The Great western railway, 1926), by G.E.B., G.E. B., and Great Western Railway (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cathedrals. With seventy-four illustrations by photographic reproduction and seventy-four drawings. (Great western railway company, 1924), by Martin S. Briggs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cathedral its necessary place in the life and work of the church (J. Murray, 1878), by Edward White Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the cathedrals. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1901), by William H. Fairbairns and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The pilgrim shrines of England (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1928), by Ben C. Boulter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the cathedrals. (S. Sonnenschein, 1901), by William H. Fairbairns (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cathedrals, abbeys and shrines of history and romance ([London, 1925), by London Midland and Scottish Railway Company and William Henry Walton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cathedrals and other churches of Great Britain : one hundred illustrations (Brentano's, 1911), by John. H. Warrack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonders of operative masonry; sketches of the principal abbeys & cathedrals of England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales. (Masonic Pub. Co., 1877), by Clifford P. MacCalla (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our national cathedrals (the richest architectural heritage of the British nation) : their history and architecture from their foundation to modern times ; with special accounts of modern restorations (Ward, Lock, and Co., 1889), by Benjamin Winkles and Henry Winkles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Graphic & historical description of the cathedrals of Great Britain. (C. & J. Rivingtons, 1825), by James Sargant Storer, J. N. Brewer, and Henry Sargant Storer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales; the drawings made from sketches taken expressly for this work. (Tilt and Bogue, 1842), by Henry Winkles, Benjamin Winkles, Thomas Moule, and Robert Garland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Do away with deans : cathedral reform / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (G.J. Palmer, 32, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1869), by Edward Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cathedrals of Great Britain; their history and architecture (J. M. Dent & Sons ltd., 1916), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An introduction to English church architecture from the eleventh to the sixteenth century. With 1,400 illus. (H. Milford, 1913), by Francis Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cathedral antiquities. (Longman, 1814), by John Britton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook to the cathedrals of England. Southern division. (John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1861), by R. J. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the antient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches. Being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon anglicanum: containing the original and first establishment of all the religious orders that ever were in Great Britain ... not spoken of by Sir William Dugdale, and Mr. Dodsworth. The foundations of their several monasteries ... (Printed for T. Taylor, 1722), by John Stevens and William Dugdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, from its foundation ... : beautified with sundry prospects of the old fabrick, which was destroyed by the fire of that city, 1666 : as also with the figures of the tombs and monuments therein, which were all defaced in the late rebellion : whereunto is added, a continuation thereof, setting forth what was done in the structure of the new church, to the year 1685 : likewise, an historical account of the northern cathedrals, and chief collegiate churches in the province of York (Printed by George James, for Jonah Bowyer ..., 1716), by William Dugdale, John Harris, Wenceslaus Hollar, Jonah Bowyer, George James, and E. Maynard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cathedral pilgrimage ... (The Macmillan Co., 1906), by Julia C. R. Dorr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cathedrals of England and Wales; 120 photographs, with short notes. Vol. II. (F.A. Stokes Co., 1909), by Nugent M. Clougher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cathedrals of Great Britain, their history and architecture (J. M. Dent & Company;, 1904), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Views of Ripon. (Rock Brothers & Payne, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baudenkmaeler in Grossbritannien (E. Wasmuth, 1894), by Constantin Uhde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cathedrals and abbeys of Great Britain and Ireland (Harper & brothers, 1890), by Richard Wheatley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cathedrals : with seventy-four illustrations by photographic reproduction and seventy-four drawings (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926), by Great Western Railway (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cathedrals of England & Wales through a camera. (J.L. Allday, 1890), by Robert Kirkup Dent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the cathedrals [of England] (Photochrom Co., Ltd., 1913), by W. H. Fairbairns (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and Architecture, by P. H. Ditchfield, illust. by H. Crickmore, Helen M. James, Herbert Railton, and James Ayton Symington (Gutenberg ebook)

• The chapels royal (E. Nash, 1912), by William Macdonald Sinclair and Louis Weirter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les "chantry-chapels" anglaises (H. Delesques, 1908), by Paul Biver and F. E. Howard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nonconformity and liberty : letters addressed to Thomas S. James, Esq., on his History of the litigation and legislation respecting Presbyterian chapels and charities in England and Ireland between 1816 and 1849 (Whitfield, Green, 1867), by John Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nonconformity and liberty : letters addressed to Thomas S. James, Esq., on his History of the litigation and legislation respecting Presbyterian chapels and charities in England and Ireland between 1816 and 1849 (Whitfield, Green, 1867), by John Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Curious Church Gleanings (Hull: W. Andrews and Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1896), ed. by William Andrews
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• Ecclesiastical Curiosities (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1899), ed. by William Andrews
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• Curiosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (London: Methuen and Co., 1890), by William Andrews (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Churches of Great Britain (Published for the proprietors by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, Paternoster-Row, and G. and W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria Lane, 1824), by John Preston Neale, John Le Keux, G. and W. B. Whittaker, and Hurst Longman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parish churches of England; illustrated from a selection of photographs specially taken by Thomas W. Sears for Harvard university (Rogers and Manson company, 1915), by Charles Howard Walker and Thomas Warren Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church and manor; a study in English economic history (G. Allen & company, ltd., 1913), by Sidney Oldall Addy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Litchfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, Peterborough, Canterbury, Rochester, London, Winchester, Chichester, Norwich, Bangor, and St. Asaph. : Containing an history of their foundations, builders, ancient monuments, and inscriptions; endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages. Dates of consecration, admission, preferment, deaths, burials, and epitaphs of the bishops, deans, precentors, chancellors, treasurers, subdeans, archdeacons, and prebendaries ... With an exact account of all the churches and chapels in each diocese; distinguished under their proper archdeaconries and deanries; to what saints dedicated, who patrons of them, and to what religious houses appropriated. The whole ... illustrated with thirty two curious draughts of the ichnographies, uprights, and other prospects of these cathedrals ... (Printed for T. Osborne in Gray's Inn and T. Bacon in Dublin, 1742), by Browne Willis, Frederick Lewis Lloyd-Philipps, and Richard Llewellin Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The parish churches of England (Chapman Slate Co., 1930), by Harry Leslie Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in church dedications; or, England's patron saints (Skeffington & son, 1899), by Frances Egerton Arnold-Forster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Village life in the fifteenth century (The Sheldon press;, 1928), by Winifred Ida Haward and Helen Margaret Duncan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cathedral churches of England (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1925), by A. Hamilton Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• London riverside churches (A. Constable & co., 1897), by Alfred Ernest Daniell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities of the church : studies of curious customs, services and records (Methuen, 1890), by William Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wimborne minster and Christchurch priory; a short history of their foundation and description of their buildings (G. Bell & sons, 1899), by T. Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Devon churches : studies of some of the ancient buildings (Printed at the "Herald" Press, 1901), by Allen T. Hussell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ecclesiastical topography. A collection of one hundred views of churches, in the environs of London, from drawings expressly taken for this work, accompanied with descriptions from the best sources, both ms. and printed ... (Cadell & Davies [etc.] and the proprietor, S. Woodburn, 1807), by Samuel Woodburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The precinct of a gothic minister. A lecture delivered before the Cambridge Architectural Society, 1864, and at the Architectural Museum, South Kensington, 1865 (Joseph Masters, 1865), by Mackenzie E. C. Walcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities of the church : studies of curious customs, services and records (W. Andrews & Co., 1891), by William Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English churches: their architectures, furniture, decoration, and monuments. (L. U. Gill, 1900), by George Clinch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A hand-book of English ecclesiology (J. Masters, 1847), by Ecclesiological Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rural churches, their histories, architecture and antiquities (Groombridge and Sons, 1869), by Sidney Corner and Benjamin Fawcett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A few words to church-builders. Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (Cambridge Camden Society at the University Press, 1841), by Cambridge Camden Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• West country churches. (Bristol times and mirror, 1914), by William James Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial. (Cassell, 1887), by T. G. Bonney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fen and marshland churches; a series of photographs, with short historical and architectural descriptive notes. The photographic illustrations by Edward Johnson. (Leach, 1867), by Edward Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-book to the eastern cathedrals. (J. Murray, 1862), by R. J. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curious church gleanings. (W. Andrews & co.;, 1868), by William Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ruined and deserted churches. (Stock, 1908), by Lucy Elizabeth Beedham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old English churches: their architecture, furniture, decoration, monuments, vestments, and plates (L. Upcott Gull ;, 1900), by George Clinch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. (Chapman and Hall, 1845), by S. C. Hall and James Duffield Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial (Cassell, 1890), by T. G. Bonney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cathedral church of Canterbury : a description of its fabric and a brief history of the archiepiscopal see (G. Bell & Sons, 1899), by Hartley Withers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die neuere kirchliche baukunst in England; entwicklung, bedingungen, und grundzüge des kirchenbaues der englischen staatskirche und der secten. (W. Ernst & sohn, 1901), by Hermann Muthesius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cathedrals, abbeys, and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial (Cassell, 1898), by T. G. Bonney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pamphlets on English architecture assembled by George Gilbert Scott. ([England], 1833), by George Gilbert Scott, St. Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society, Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham, Architectural Society of the Archdeaconry of Northampton, and Oxford Architectural Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in church dedications : or, England's patron saints (Skeffintong & Son, 1899), by Frances Arnold-Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contrasts, or, A parallel between the architecture of the 15th & 19th centuries (Printed for the author, and published by him at St. Marie's Grange, near Salisbury, Wilts., 1836), by A. Welby Pugin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The grey shrines of England (W. & R. Chambers, 1927), by Arthur Grant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Views of the most interesting collegiate and parochial churches in Great Britain : including screens, fonts, monuments, &c., &c. with historical and architectural descriptions (For the proprietors by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green :, 1824), by John Preston Neale, John McCreery, John Le Keux, G. and W. B. Whittaker, and Hurst Longman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The village church (Methuen, 1915), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Review. (Church Information Office [etc.], 1924), by Church of England. Council of Diocesan Advisory Committees for the Care of Churches (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ecclesiastical Curiosities, ed. by William Andrews (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory: A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings, by Thomas Perkins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Monasticon anglicanum. English (London : Printed, for Sam Keble ..., 1693), by William Dugdale, Roger Dodsworth, John Stevens, and James Wright (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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