Identifier: essayonhistoryof00scot (find matches)
Title: An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, G. Gilbert (George Gilbert), 1839-1897
Subjects: Church architecture Church architecture
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall and co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 121 above it, and to deposit, within an enclosure of iron-work, the feretrum of St. Amphibalusand his fellow-martyrs.^ Is it probable that abbat Trumpington would have placed relics sosacred, and works of art so splendid, beneath a roof of the same antiquity as those in theaisles, whose rotten condition had just necessitated their entire reconstruction ) Within a century a catastrophe did actually occur to that portion of the nave in whichstood these priceless objects of pious veneration and of art: but it was not the roof, whichwas the cause of the ruin which occurred upon the feast of St. Paulinus, in the year 1323.It was the norman piers which were in fault, of which two, upon the southern side of thenave, fell to the ground—duae magnas columnae partis australis ecclesiae a fundamento primodeficientes cum horribili strepitu et fragore, ad terram successive, proh dolor (!) corruerunt.It is not, I think, an unreasonable conjecture, that t

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