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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SELBY  , a

market
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town in the Barkston Ash
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parliamentary division of the West
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Riding of
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Yorkshire, England, 131 m . S. of York on the
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Great
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Northern and North-Eastern
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railways . Pop. of urban
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district (1901) 7786 . It stands,in a level plain on the
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left
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bank of the
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river
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Ouse, by which communication is provided with the
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Humber . The church of St Mary and St German belonged to a
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Benedictine abbey founded under a grant from William the Conqueror in 1069 and raised to the dignity of a mitred abbey by Pope Alexander II . The monastic buildings have practically disappeared, but the church was a splendid
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building of various
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dates from Norman to Decorated, the choir and Lady
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chapel representing the later period . The
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nave passes from Norman to Early
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English in the course of its eight bays from east to west and also from the
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arcade through the
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triforium to the clerestory . About midnight of the 1gth–2oth of
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October 1906, a fire broke out in the Latham chapel adjoining the north choir aisle, in which a new
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organ had recently been erected, and soon involved the whole building . Specially serious damage was done in the immediate neighbourhood of the chapel, the oak-groined roof and rich fittings of the choir were wholly destroyed, but the finely moulded arches and the magnificent
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tracery of the east window survived in great
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part . Much damage was done to the tower, and the nave roof perished, for the fire reached practically every part of the building, though the stonework of the nave suffered comparatively little . Schemes for the collection of funds and the
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complete restoration of the church were immediately set on
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foot, the architect being Mr Oldrid Scott . Selby is the centre of a rich agricultural district, and its
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industries include rope and twine making,
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flax-scutching, boat-building, iron-founding, tanning and
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brewing .

Tradition indicates Selby as the

birth-place of Henry I., and thus accounts for the high privileges conferred upon the abbey . The town had a considerable part in the operations of the
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Civil
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Wars, being held at the outset by the Parliamentarians, and captured by the Royalists in 1644, but soon retaken by
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Sir Thomas Fairfax .

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