Identifier: p2surreyarchaeol05surr (find matches)
Title: Surrey archaeological collections
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Surrey Archaeological Society
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Publisher: Guildford (etc.)
Contributing Library: Surrey Archaeological Society
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the most wonderful points connected withGothic architecture is the fact that no two buildingsever exactly corresponded in any respect, although asimilar general style prevailed, and changed from time totime throughout the country, and (speaking generally)wherever pure Gothic architecture prevailed : and thereis every reason to believe that the architects were allassociated in the bonds of Freemasonry, then a sub-stantive guild. Thus it happens from this agreement in diversity,that even in very plain buildings we so frequently findsome peculiarities. This church presents some features which bespeakattention. On entering it we are at once struck bythe very remarkable height of the pillars in proportionto the arches,1 and still more in proportion to the other printed in paper by R. Daniel-Tyssen, Esq., F.S.A., in the Collectionsof this Society, vol. iv. p. 1-5. 1 The pillars, including capital, base, and low plinth, are 1G ft. 9 in.high, although the arches are only 7 ft. 5 in. in span.
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4 CO -o CHIDTHNGFOLD CHURCII. 161 dimensions of the church. We next observe, that thechancel-arch is not in the middle of the east end ofthe nave, but on the south side ; and next we shallremark the fact, that the united width of the nave andaisles is within a fraction of the length of the nave, andconsequently the ground occupied by the nave and aislestogether is very nearly a square. To account for thesepeculiarities is a problem which can scarcely be solvedto a perfect certainty, even if the walls be stripped oftheir plaster covering, or even in the event of theirdestruction; and without these advantages one mustoffer the best theory that presents itself. The earliest date apparent in any part of the presentbuilding—for, as previously observed, there was probablyan earlier structure existing in Saxon times, not unlikelyformed of the most available local material—timber,such as that of the church still existing at Greenstead,in Essex, which has survived all contingencies from th

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