. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . )illars and arches had been wliite-washed, and the congregation then objected to the lime rubbing o£P upon their clothes,woodwork was actually placed round the gigantic supports of the arches. Ofcouise, portions of the architecture are of various dates, some of it being of the. ST. Bartholomews, before the restoration. Perpendicular period; but on the whole this building, with the exception of somefragments in other chm-ches, is the best example of good Anglo-Norman archi-tecture in the City. The clere
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . )illars and arches had been wliite-washed, and the congregation then objected to the lime rubbing o£P upon their clothes,woodwork was actually placed round the gigantic supports of the arches. Ofcouise, portions of the architecture are of various dates, some of it being of the. ST. Bartholomews, before the restoration. Perpendicular period; but on the whole this building, with the exception of somefragments in other chm-ches, is the best example of good Anglo-Norman archi-tecture in the City. The clerestory represents Early English ; and the tomb ofRahere is Perpendicular, and a very fine example, though overlaid with coarsecolouiing of comparatively recent date. The windows were altered in the fifteenthcentmy; the floor was raised about the year 1500. Across the western bend ofwhat should have been the eastern apse, a straight wall had been erected, and AND St. Saviours.] TUItGATOUY. 385 was painted red, spotted with black stars; and loni^ afterwards, at a distance of afew feet eastward, was built a second wall, pierced with two arches of the timeof Charles I., the narrow space between bearing the name of Purgatory,possibly because of its darkness, or because of a quantity of bones having been
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