The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . former was rebuilt in the reign ofEadgar. A discussion has arisen in regard to its crypt, as towhether it does not belong wholly or in part to the earlierbuilding. I think the views of Mr. Irving and Dr. Cox in regard to itwill prevail. Dr. Cox holds {Notes on the Churches of Derby-shire] that the vault had not been originally groined and vaulted,and that the outer walls with their nearly obliterated chapels orrecesses and their remarkable cornice belong to the old lowerchancel or crypt of the cel
The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . former was rebuilt in the reign ofEadgar. A discussion has arisen in regard to its crypt, as towhether it does not belong wholly or in part to the earlierbuilding. I think the views of Mr. Irving and Dr. Cox in regard to itwill prevail. Dr. Cox holds {Notes on the Churches of Derby-shire] that the vault had not been originally groined and vaulted,and that the outer walls with their nearly obliterated chapels orrecesses and their remarkable cornice belong to the old lowerchancel or crypt of the celebrated Repton monastery, destroyedby the Danes in 874, while the groin and its sustaining pillarsbelong to Eadgars time, when the church was re-dedicated toSt. Wistan, who lived in the second half of the eighth transferred his relics from Repton to Othershave argued that the crypt belongs entirely to Eadgars reign. I have contented myself with giving a ground plan of thecrypt and a view of the columns. 1 Op. cit. ii. 357. 2 Anglia Sacra, i. 196. 3 Hardy, Cat., i. PLAN OF THE CRYPT AT REPTON. [Iol. III., facingf>. 386
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