. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . t bricks; so these were largely usedat Camulodunum, and as the overlookerswere Romans, they were, it is needless tosay, of the best. So when the Roman citywent to ruin, and jDcasants built their cottages among its deserted public build-ings, the remnants of a higher civilisation formed an excellent quarry, and a largepart of mediaeval Colchester—notably the castle, the priory of St. Botolph, andthe tower of Holy Trinity Church—was constructed mainly of bricks fromthe Roman ruins. The tower may be brief
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . t bricks; so these were largely usedat Camulodunum, and as the overlookerswere Romans, they were, it is needless tosay, of the best. So when the Roman citywent to ruin, and jDcasants built their cottages among its deserted public build-ings, the remnants of a higher civilisation formed an excellent quarry, and a largepart of mediaeval Colchester—notably the castle, the priory of St. Botolph, andthe tower of Holy Trinity Church—was constructed mainly of bricks fromthe Roman ruins. The tower may be briefly described. It is the outcome of a time whenthere was little knowledge of art, and f)iot)ably little money to expend ondecoration. The greater part of it, as we see it, is the original structure,though one or two windows have been pierced at a later date, and thelast few feet are a modern addition. It is roughly built of Roman brickwhich has been plastered—perhaps from the first; the old windows are ofthe simplest possible type—mere round-headed openings, splayed and HOLY TRINITY, COLCHESTER : TUE \VEST DOOR. 394 ABBEYS AND CnUKCHES. [Earls Barton. The small entrance door is the most interesting feature. It has rectangularpiers, square capitals of the simplest form, and a triangular arch, with a plainhood-moulding. The ground-floor chamber of the tower is connected with thebody of the church by a large arched opening. Tliis, together with the lowerpart of the eastern wall of the tower, is considered by some authorities to beof yet earlier date than the rest of the building. The body of the church ismuch more modern than the tower, and there is little of interest in its archi-tecture or in its history. The church of Earls Barton, in Northamptonshire, stands high up on the leftbank of the Nen, and occupies a commanding position near the top of a littleeminence in the village itself. The tower alone is earlier than the Norman Conquest,the remainder of the chu
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