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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
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nt work-manship, shewing with the mortar-joints six tiles to a foot; and after 3 ft. 5 in. we come to a Sedile, which was discovered a short time ago blocked up with mediaeval brickwork (see Illustration). It had apparently a pointed arch of which about 5 ins. have been cut away. The springing line is about 2 ft. 9^ in.above the seat; the radii are about 3 ft. 9 in., their centres being on the springing line. This would fixits measurements as follows—span 5 ft., depth about1 ft. 3 in., height from seat to springing line 2 ft. 9^ in.,and from seat to apex about 6 ft. 4< in. A difficulty has arisen as to the date of the Sedile from the fact that the top of it has been cut away by the insertion of a lancet window, appearing at first sight to belong to the Early English period, so that the Sedile would seem as if it must be of an earlier date than the window. But Mr. Livett, though believing it not impossible that the Sedile and lancet window were built at the same time, and the sill of the window
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ST. martins church, canterbury. 11 altered afterwards, thinks it more probable that the Sedile and the brickwork in which it is placed were built late in the twelfth century, and the lancet window inserted subsequently, perhaps in the fourteenth century. The position of the Sedile would seem to point out that the Altar stood, in Early English times, immediately east of the step whereon the present Altar-rails are placed. Little or nothing fresh has been discovered on the N. side of the Chancel. The so-called Queen Berthas tomb, which is now surmounted by a pseudo-Norman arch, is probably the tomb of the Restorer of the Church at the end of the twelfth century, andis coeval with the later brick wall. Below ground, in the North-West angle of the Chancel, were found two or three projecting Roman tiles, apparently the beginning of a cross wall which was destroyed when the present Chancel Arch was erected. Some slight signs of the cross wall have also been detected above the stalls in this angle. It now

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