Identifier: transactionsofbr1318bris (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ch, and a tower at the west end of the nave, (See Plan, Plate I.) In the tower is a room furnished with a fireplace and chimney,as is also the case in each parvise. The chimney in the towerruns up about 15 feet in the north wall and then passes outthrough a small wrought stone opening in the face of the wall.The tower turret is at the north-east angle up to the roof level,then it changes to the south-east angle. The building dates from the Saxon period, and contains workof every age from that time to the present. The only visibleSaxon remains are the two bases (these bases are not level, thaton the east side being about 2 ins. higher than the other) of theshafts to the inner doorway of the north porch, probably the workof the Benedictine monks in the 10th century. Then comes theNorman doorway on the top of these Saxon bases, and in orderto make the capitals level, one shaft was made longer than theother ; proving that the ancient bases were not disturbed whenthe Norman work was built.
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Hawkesbqry Church. 11 Then follows the Early English period, to which belong thegreater part of the chancel, the stones of the chancel arch (thisarch was rebuilt and widened at a much later date with the resultthat it pushed out the north nave wall and a buttress was built tosupport it), the greater part of the south aisle, the lower part oftower arch, part of the north porch and other minor portions. There is an Early English coffin-lid with a floriated crosscarved on it, built into the south-east angle of the south porch;and another built into the north wall of the nave, near the pulpit;there are also signs of others in various parts of the building. To the next period, the Decorated, belong the nave arcade(some portions of which, if not the whole, were taken down andput up again when the chancel arch was rebuilt), and the towerup to the roof line of a former roof. And to the last Gothic period, the Perpendicular, belong theroofs of the nave and aisle, the nave clerestory, the southtransactionsofbr1318bris

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