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Identifier: antiquitiesofen01gros (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of England and Wales
Year: 1785 (1780s)
Authors: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
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Publisher: London : S. Hooper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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PREFACE. 113 in the view of the east end of Barfrefton church; and in the entrance into what was the Strangers hall, in the monastery of Christs Church, Canterbury, built by Archbishop Lanfranc; the small pillars, or columns whereof, were formerly richly ornamented; but by order of one of the deans, were chipped plain. The escutcheons over there are remarkable j they not being customary at the time of its erection. About the time of Alfred probably, but certainly in the reign of Edgar, (k) high towers and cross aisles were first introduced: the Saxon churches till then being only square, or oblong buildings, generally turned semicircularly at the east end. Towers at first scarcely rose higher than the roof; being intended chiefly as a kind of lanthorn, for the admittance of light. An addition to their height was in all likelihood suggested on the more common use of bells which, though mentioned in some of our monasteries in the seventh century, were not in use in churches till

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