. London . if< 5outhPorch <& Scale- PLAN I swox CHURCH, BRADFORD-ON-AVON porches arc of the same breadth. The church must havebeen very dark, but then windows in a cold climate, if youhave no glass, must be as small in size and as few innumber as possible. It was lit by a small window in theeastern wall of the north porch, no doubt by another in thesouth porch, by a small window in the south wall of the navenear the chancel and by a fourth small window in the southwall of the chancel, so placed that the light, and sometimesthe sun, should fall upon the altar during celebration of
. London . if< 5outhPorch <& Scale- PLAN I swox CHURCH, BRADFORD-ON-AVON porches arc of the same breadth. The church must havebeen very dark, but then windows in a cold climate, if youhave no glass, must be as small in size and as few innumber as possible. It was lit by a small window in theeastern wall of the north porch, no doubt by another in thesouth porch, by a small window in the south wall of the navenear the chancel and by a fourth small window in the southwall of the chancel, so placed that the light, and sometimesthe sun, should fall upon the altar during celebration of church was thus imperfectly lit by four small windows, SAXON AND NORMAN 61 each with its round arch. The people knelt on the stones ;there were no chairs or benches for them ; the bareness of thechurch at the present day is just what it was at first. There. is no tower. Over the chancel arch are sculptured two angels. Outside the church, at the height of about ten feet, runs a course of round arcades, the only ornament, unless the remains of some engaged pilasters on the View of Interior, showing very remark-able Chancel Arch and Entranceinner door of the north porch be counted a., ornament. A little new ZSSS^SSS^Srmasonry has been added within and two new windows have been cut in the northern wallfor the purpose of giving more light. But with these ex-ceptions the church is exactly as it was when Aldhelm 62 LONDON reared it and dedicated it to St. Laurence. I do not say thatthis little church represents all the Saxon parish churches ofLondon, but we may be sure that it represents some, and \vcknow that many of them, even after they had been rebuilt inthe twelth century and after mediaeval piety had beautified anddecorated them, remained mean and small. In the matter ofSaxon churches we have perhaps fewer existing specimensthan we have o
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