Notes on the Churches in the Counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, Mentioned in Domesday Book, and Those of More Recent Date: Including Comparative Lists of the Churches, and Some Account of the Sepulchral Memorials and Other Antiquities, Volumen2J.R. Smith, 1852 - 388 páginas |
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Página xiii - Dei genetricis, quam in monasterio majore fecerat, ecelesiam in gyro coronaret, adtulit ; imagines quoque ad ornandum monasterium ecclesiamque beati Pauli Apostoli, de concordia Veteris et Novi Testamenti, summa ratione compositas, exhibuit : verbi gratia, Isaac ligna, quibus immolaretur, portantem ; et Dominum crucem, in qua pateretur, seque portantem, proxima super invicem regione, pictura conjunxit. Item serpenti in eremo a Moyse exaltato, Filium hominis in cruce exaltatum comparavit.
Página 82 - in the twenty -first year of the reign of Edward the Third after the conquest " (of England by Norman William.) (Reg.
Página 20 - was then made over the corpse, composed of rods of wood, in diameter from an inch to half an inch, stretched across from side to side, crossed at about the distance of six or seven inches (as was judged) by other rods, two or three together, some impressions of which have been preserved. This having been prepared for a support, the dome of tempered clay was then made over it, fuel introduced, and a very strong fire again made, which burnt the dome into a complete vaulting of brick over the corpse...
Página viii - Ellis.) eludes by asserting that Domesday Book cannot be decisively appealed to for the non-existence of parish churches in the age in which it was compiled. Although no direct evidence is to be obtained from Domesday as to the existence or non-existence of a church at Grappenhall, the following notices would seem to suggest an explanation of the omission of a church in this particular case. The neighbouring parish of...
Página xi - That many of the Saxon churches were erected of stone, and on plans of great complexity, with crypts, triforia, clerestories, central towers, and other parts resembling in arrangement the Norman churches, can hardly be doubted, from the descriptions that have been preserved to us. But that in dimensions and decoration they at all equalled the churches of their successors is wholly improbable. That cotemporary writers should praise them as immeasurably lofty and spacious is natural, and in perfect...
Página 106 - From this statement, and from the continued poverty of the Nunnery, they acquired the name of " the poor nuns of Davington ;" and their numbers continuing to decrease, as the charges of living advanced, they at length wholly deserted their establishment in the reign of Henry VIII. when their possessions escheating to the crown, were afterwards granted to sir...
Página 90 - a very curious and ancient Patine, which, when the Roman Catholic religion prevailed here, covered the chalice, or contained the consecrated wafers at the sacrament of mass. It is of silver gilt, and six inches in diameter. In the centre, most beautifully embellished with blue and green enamel...
Página x - Fraud autem multi, Frisones, Galli, Pagani, Britones, et Scoti, Armorici sponte se suo dominio subdiderant, nobiles scilicet et ignobiles.
Página 106 - The greatest part of the church belonging to i lib small establishment still remains, together with the sister's house, which adjoins it on the south, and is now inhabited by a farmer. The church is low, principally consisting of a nave and two aisles, separated by semicircular arches, rising from quadrangular piers ; two other arches, which croas the aisles at the west end, and formed part of the original structure, are obtusely pointed.