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"ref": "2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57",
"text": "In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.",
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"sense": "main altar in a church",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhǔjìtái",
"sense": "main altar in a church",
"word": "主祭台"
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"sense": "main altar in a church",
"word": "pääalttari"
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"sense": "main altar in a church",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "main altar in a church",
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"roman": "Agía Trápeza",
"sense": "main altar in a church",
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"word": "Αγία Τράπεζα"
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"sense": "main altar in a church",
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"sense": "main altar in a church",
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