. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . might be useful on the groundfloor; the other migh^ be designed to represent apipe carried up between the four pillars to theupper room, to supply a font there; nor is thisat all improbable ; for, as I am informed, severalbaptisteries abroad are built separate from thechurches to which they belong; that of the 1 In the Gentlemans Magazine for 1775, page 528, Acadimicus, of Ox-ford, has obliged me with some remarks, to which I hope I have paidproper regard ; but had he se
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . might be useful on the groundfloor; the other migh^ be designed to represent apipe carried up between the four pillars to theupper room, to supply a font there; nor is thisat all improbable ; for, as I am informed, severalbaptisteries abroad are built separate from thechurches to which they belong; that of the 1 In the Gentlemans Magazine for 1775, page 528, Acadimicus, of Ox-ford, has obliged me with some remarks, to which I hope I have paidproper regard ; but had he seen this dome, observed its ceiling, sprinkledwith stars once gilded; that it was built with a spacious arch, never designedto be shut up ; and that it made one end of Archbishop Cuthberts building,with baptisteries, &c. erected about 471, as observed chap. XI. he wouldhardly have believed so public and elegant a chapel designed for combingof heads, and washing of hands and faces, (as some have done,) and allowmy conjecture of its having been a baptistery, full as reasonable as any thathave appeared to the 77v liilulc ,fTl>r ?):»i)lisli;v. ^
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