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Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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cessors. In 1089 Robert, Bishop of Hereford, laid the foundation stone of a newchurch, which in July, 1100, was dedicated with great honour by Sampson,Bishop of Worcester, Gondulf, Bishop of Rochester, and Hervseus, Bishop ofBangor. If any of Aldreds work remains in the crypt it may be distinguishedby its lack of ornament; Serlos workmen used zigzag or chevron moulding,and it must be allowed that their masonry was more solid and imposing thanthat of the earlier structure. It requires more than a glance to realise how much of the Norman workstill remains. At first sight the choir and the transepts seem to belong to thefourteenth century, but on further examination it is found that the Perpen-dicular work is only skin-deep. The panelling has been skilfully attached, asthough with cement, to the Norman arches, which have been cut away toreceive it. In 1092 William Rufus held a great Witenagemot, or council of his wisemen, in St. Peters Abbey, and Anselm was compelled, notwithstanding his
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h C/J < w X < QW <: o WHCO WO D oo .§ As Uloucesier) ROBERT OF NORMANDY. 211 entreaties to be spared the honour, to accept the vacant Archbishopric of Canter-bury. Mr. Freeman says that almost everything that happened in the reign ofAVilHam II. somehow contrived to happen at Gloucester. In 1100 the king wasslain in the New Forest, but not without a warning reaching him from AbbotSerlo that some such calamity was overhanging him. All this time, under the sway of Serlo, the abbey was rapidly approachingcompletion. Two years after its re-dedication a fire is said to have consumedthe town and church of Gloucester. The same story is frequently told in theabbey chronicles. We must suppose that on such occasions only the flat woodenroof or the wooden bell-towers perished; the walls and pillars, which still bearthe marks of fire, remained comparatively uninjured. In 1104 Serlo passed away, and was buried on the soutli side of the pres-bytery, where a bracket monument

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