Guide to StAugustine's monastery and missionary college .. . adyMildred, Bishop Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, andMrs. Selwyn, and Bishop Blomfield, late Bishop of London;two curious old prints, showing the different colleges inthe Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, two panoramicviews, one of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, andone of Cairo, and over the door an oil painting of Arch-bishop Laud. Before entering THE CLOISTER GARDENwe pass over the site of the Abbots private apartments andthe Cellarers, which reached from the Great Hall to thechurch. The entrance we pass through is a
Guide to StAugustine's monastery and missionary college .. . adyMildred, Bishop Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, andMrs. Selwyn, and Bishop Blomfield, late Bishop of London;two curious old prints, showing the different colleges inthe Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, two panoramicviews, one of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, andone of Cairo, and over the door an oil painting of Arch-bishop Laud. Before entering THE CLOISTER GARDENwe pass over the site of the Abbots private apartments andthe Cellarers, which reached from the Great Hall to thechurch. The entrance we pass through is a modern one ;there were originally two, the old one on our left, close tothe remains of the old Cloisters, probably built after theflood in 1271. The style of architecture came in about1240. At the back of the Cloisters was the refectory ofthe Monks, and beyond that the great kitchen, a hexagonalbuilding, probably vaulted, with columns at each side. Abase of one, uncovered a short time since, shows that thekitchen was erected in a style in keeping with the. MISSIONARY COLLEGE. 25 grandeur of the surrounding buildings. Under the kitchenran the water course, the conduit being supplied, like thatof Christ Church, from the springs which rise on the hillsbeyond. The ruins around the cottage are the remains ofthe Dormitories ; the Infirmary and Infirmary Chapel weremore to the north-east. The Chapter House was in thefield beyond, just over the wall and in a direct line withthe green path. In the distance we see the ruined arch ofSt. Pancras. On our right are the remains of the AbbeyChurch, it extended nearly loo feet beyond the wall. InDugdales Monasticon there is a plan of the high altar,also the different shrines showing the apse and the threecircular Chapels ; the centre one is said by some to markthe burial place of Augustine, the one on the right that ofKing Ethelbert, Queen Bertha and her Confessor Luidhard ;the one on the left the six Saxon Archbishops succeedingAugustine. On
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