Identifier: cathedralsabbey02bonn (find matches)
Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923 Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Cathedrals Church buildings Church buildings
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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of great lawyers cannot boseparated wholly from the church. The most stirring incident in its careeroccurred in tlie insurrection of Wat Tyler, to whom men of the law were anabomination. Ho, it is said, took out of it the books and records that werein closets of the apprentices of the law, carried them out into the street, and thenburnt them. Even in the time of its former owners it had had some experienceof robbery, but the plunderer was no less a person than Edward I., who in thej-ear 1283, after gaining admission to the Treasury on the pretext of wishing toexamine the jewels of his mother which had been deposited there, helped himselflargely to the property of the knights. The church had a narrow escape from the Great Fire of 1G66, sixteen years afterwhich it was beautified and adorned in the taste of that age; a few years later thesouth-west part was rebuilt. It was, we read, also repaired and beautified in170G, being, among other improvements, wholly new whitewashed. It suffered
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THE TKMPLK CHURCH: THE ROTUNDA. The Tfmple Church.) TOMBS OF THE TEMPLARS. 451 in like manner on three other occasions before the great restoration, whichbegan in 1839 and continued to 1842, at the cost of £70,000. It was no smallmisfortune that this was undertaken so early in the Gothic revival, for thebuilding lost much of its historical cha-racter, the old work was copied, the oldcarving perished, and much of the imita-tive detail is very unsatisfactory. Still,it is a very curious and beautiful church,the interior of which retains the structuralcharacter and the leading details of theoriginal building. At the restoration the later monu-ments which had accumulated in thechurch w^ere removed to the triforium.The most noteworthy among these com-memorate Edmund Plowden, of whomas a jurist it was said better authoritycould not be cited; Howell, author of thewell-known letters; and Martin, a recorder of London early in the seventeenth century. Opening on to the staircase whichleads to t

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