Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . hich, though not adorned with a spire, is a fine and interesting speci-men of mediaeval work. This is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. It was erectedby a guild, under the protection of that saint, and was consecrated in the year1350. Ultimately the church was attached to a parish, and it has of late yearsbeen carefully restored. It is cruciform, but the transepts are very short, notextending beyond the outer walls of the aisles, so that the ground-plan is anoblong. The tower is central. The church is
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . hich, though not adorned with a spire, is a fine and interesting speci-men of mediaeval work. This is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. It was erectedby a guild, under the protection of that saint, and was consecrated in the year1350. Ultimately the church was attached to a parish, and it has of late yearsbeen carefully restored. It is cruciform, but the transepts are very short, notextending beyond the outer walls of the aisles, so that the ground-plan is anoblong. The tower is central. The church is well worth careful study, as itsarchitecture is peculiar, the east and west windows, which are large and hand-some, and the square-headed clerestory windows, being the most remarkable fea-tures. Into the details space forbids us to enter, but we may describe the generaleffect of the design by saying that, though rather ornate, it is unusually rigid—the work of an architect who preferred rectilinear to curvilinear combinations,that of a geometrician rather than of a poet. T. G. HOLT TRINITY, COVENTRY: THE PULPIT. MONKWEARMOUTH AND JARROW. THE VENERABLE BEDE. TT may fairly be said that there are no buildings in England which can exceedJ- in interest the sister Abbey Churches of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow. Wehave fragments of older buildings in the walls of churches still in existence, as atDover, Canterbury, and elsewhere; but their earliest history is irrecoverably gone—blotted out by tlie pagan barbarians from whom the Anglo-Saxon race Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, on the other hand, we have remains so consider-able of the earliest buildings that we can see with very fair certainty what theywere like. In the tower-porch at Monkwearmouth and in the chancel at Jarrowwe stand within the walls which Benedict Biscop reared more than twelve hundredyears ago ; we are in the actual churches in which Ecgfrith, King of the North-umbrian Angles, worshipped; we are on grou
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