Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . ced in 1628 by a hideousstructure which has not been improved by later restorations. The entrance gateleading into the church, however, immediately interests the visitor as a fine exampleof Early English work; and, within the building, the bold freedom andsolidity of the vast Norman pillars and arches are as superb and imposing asever. The aisle, or ambulatory, encircling the body of the church, adds tothe sense of space and grandeur. The edifice, about 132 feet long, by 57 feetwide, and 47 feet high to
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . ced in 1628 by a hideousstructure which has not been improved by later restorations. The entrance gateleading into the church, however, immediately interests the visitor as a fine exampleof Early English work; and, within the building, the bold freedom andsolidity of the vast Norman pillars and arches are as superb and imposing asever. The aisle, or ambulatory, encircling the body of the church, adds tothe sense of space and grandeur. The edifice, about 132 feet long, by 57 feetwide, and 47 feet high to its timber roof, had been damaged in various ways,and was much injured by fire in 1830; but nothing could destroy the grand 384 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [St. Bartholomews proportions of the stonework, though, as the pillars and arches had been white-washed, and the congregation then objected to the lime rubbing off uj:)on their clothes,woodwork was actually placed round the gigantic supports of the arches. Ofcourse, portions of the architecture are of various dates, some of it being of the. 8T. Bartholomews, before the restouation. Perpendicular period ; but on the whole this building, with the exception of somefragments in other churches, is the best example of good Anglo-Norman archi-tecture in the City. The clerestory represents Early English ; and the tomb ofRahere is Perpendicular, and a very fine example, though overlaid with coarsecolouring of comparatively recent date. The windows were altered in the fifteenthcentury; the floor was raised about the year 1500. Across the western bend ofwhat should have been the eastern apse, a straight wall had been erected, and AND St. Saviouks.] PURGATORY. 385 was painted red, spotted with black stars ; and lon^ afterwards, at a distance of afew feet eastward, was built a second wall, pierced with two arches of the timeof Charles I., the narrow space between bearing the name of Purgatory,possibly because of its darkness, or because of a q
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