Identifier: wiltshirearchaeo2518godd (find matches)
Title: The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Goddard, Edward Hungerford, 1854- Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Proceedings
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: (Devizes, Eng. : The Society)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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or and convent, eighteen in number, here occur; but asthis was sixteen years after the death of William of Edington, it ispossible that this number was at one time exceeded. At the sur-render of the monastery by Paul Bush, in 1539, the number hadbecome reduced again to twelve. The chancel is of three bays in length, and the side windows are,in design and dimensions, like those in the transepts; and the Per-pendicularized form of reticulated tracery here is very characteristic.The original chancel roof was an open timbered one, with circularbraces, the lines of which are traceable on the walls; this hasdisappeared, and a modern roof and plaster ceiling about a centuryold have taken its place. But the corbels, which supported the rooftrusses, remain—two on each side—and are supported by beautifulniches. These four niches probably contained figures of theEvangelists, the headless remains of two of which still exist, andtheir graceful drapery indicates a high order of art. The emblems
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By C. U. Ponting, F.S.A. 215 at the feet of these (the lion and the eagle) symbolize St. Mark andSt. John. The truss against the east wall was supported by similarcorbels set diagonally across the angles, whilst on the west, againstthe tower, where the arch precluded this, the corbels are carried byan octagonal shaft standing on grotesques. On the east wall, flankingthe window, are two niches of very elaborate design and delicateconstruction, the slender proportion of their tabernacle work (thesmaller shafts of which are only fin square) being suggestive ofwood rather than stone. Both bear evidence of rich gilding andcolouring beneath the whitewash, and the spirit shown in theirhandicraft by the respective workmen is very instructive ; for whilstBishop Edingtons artist gilded every part, even where hidden fromview behind the canopies; the churchwardens whitewasher onlysmeared over the parts which can be seen from below—or perhapsthe latter was more sparing of his whitewash than the

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