Drawings of pre-fire Chapter House and Cloister, c.1934-1960

SPCAA/D/23/6/1-7

R.H.C. Finch, Sir Mervyn Edmund (1853 - 1932) Macartney, Walter Godfrey (1891 - 1986) Allen, Sir Bernard Melchior (1919 - 2008) Feilden

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