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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
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and in fact I know of no two even similar ones. The one peculiar feature, which they share with the Secular and Black Canons, is the plan of their churches. The limits of this paper forbid my entering into the case more fully; but it is a well-ascertained fact that most canons churches were originally cruciform and aisle-less, and that when at a later period it was deemed advisable to enlarge their churches by the addition of aisles, it was only possible, owing to the cloister and conventual buildings abutting against the nave, to add to it one aisle, on the side remote from the cloister. With regard to the choir, no such obstacles intervened, and there was nothing to prevent two * My brother navvies were Messrs. Richard Ussher, Charles Barrow. WMiller, and Tim f The case has been very ably gone into by my friend Mr. J. T. Micklethwaite F.S.A., in a paper on Bolton Priory for the Yorkshire Archaeological Association, and in one on the Growth of Parish Churches in ArchaeologicalJournal, vol. 37.
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SS. MARY AND THOMAS, AT WEST LANGDON. 63 aisles being built, as was done at Kirkham, Bridlington, and Breedon. The plan of the church at Langdon fully confirms this view. We have a nave, apparently once without aisles, but now with one to the north—the cloister being on the south; and a choir with an aisle on each side of almost equal width with itself.* There is some evidence that each of thesei s an addition. The choir-aisles are both continued west-ward to form quasi-transepts. There is a singular arrangement of walls on the north side of the choir, not easily explained. One of them turns atright angles and passes underneath the cross wall against which the altar stood. At the west end of the south choir aisle is the broad first step, with its edge worn by constant tread of feet, of the night-stairs to the dormitory, which were carried over a wide arch, whose jambs remain; these stairs were 5 feet 3; inches wide. The extent of the nave westward and the position of the campanile are both unkn

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