Archaeologia cantiana . 2Fr2iN> 2r- NORTH AISLE OF THE BASILICA—FEAGMENT OF KOBTH WALL,. FOrNDATIONS OF WALLS BENEATH THE EXISTING CHURCH. VOL. IX. 210 THE BASILICA OF LTMINGE ; and position. But what could liave been the masonryof the visible portion of this massive building ? Nowhere, besides particular and incidental evidencesarisins: out of the remains of the lloman work tobe found in the churcli, we have the undoubtc^l factthat the entire Roman building has been broken upin order to build the present church, which is con-structed in rude imitation of the work from which itwas taken, an
Archaeologia cantiana . 2Fr2iN> 2r- NORTH AISLE OF THE BASILICA—FEAGMENT OF KOBTH WALL,. FOrNDATIONS OF WALLS BENEATH THE EXISTING CHURCH. VOL. IX. 210 THE BASILICA OF LTMINGE ; and position. But what could liave been the masonryof the visible portion of this massive building ? Nowhere, besides particular and incidental evidencesarisins: out of the remains of the lloman work tobe found in the churcli, we have the undoubtc^l factthat the entire Roman building has been broken upin order to build the present church, which is con-structed in rude imitation of the work from which itwas taken, and which formed the model to tliose whowere destroying it for this purpose. Instead ofcleaning these stones, and preparing them for theirnew position, as was customary in the Norman period(as in the case of St. Albans), they built them in,covered with masses of Roman concrete, both red andwhite, and exactly corresponding with those of thefoundation we have discovered; the stones forming thearches of the E-oman windows are turned to the sameuse in the present church, and are sometimes eve
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