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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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PLATE III.
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ROTJND-NAVEB CHURCHES IN ENGLAND. 65 anastasis or circular building that enclosed the Holy Sepulchreitself, attached to the martirium or apsidal quire raised abovethe reputed site of Calvary. This notable church,, which hadoriginally been built early in the fourth century by theEmperor Constantine, had been ruined and rebuilt at leasttwice, but in 1047 it was again rebuilt, and as before on oldlines. The Order of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist wasfounded in 1099, but its first English house, that of St. Johnat Clerkenwell, was not founded until about 1140 Theapsidal quire of its church, with its underlying crypt, wasthereupon begun, and followed gradually by the building ofa large circular nave, no doubt with an inner ring of pillars.The remains of this nave were discovered by Mr. H. W.Fincham in 1900. But late in the twelfth century the easternlimb was greatly enlarged on a different plan, and in 1185the whole church was ready for its hallowing by the patriarchHeraclius. (Fig.

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