Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . Normanpilasters can be seen outside, and the semi-columns which bore the vaultingof the roof yet remain within. A north porch with an upper chamber wasalso added. The abbey contains a number of interesting monuments, but several havebeen brought hither from other churchesin the town. One is said to com-memorate the founder, but this isdoubtful, and it is certainly not now between the two altars. Three altar-tombs at the west end of the northaisle are interesting, as giving in juxta-position fine specime
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . Normanpilasters can be seen outside, and the semi-columns which bore the vaultingof the roof yet remain within. A north porch with an upper chamber wasalso added. The abbey contains a number of interesting monuments, but several havebeen brought hither from other churchesin the town. One is said to com-memorate the founder, but this isdoubtful, and it is certainly not now between the two altars. Three altar-tombs at the west end of the northaisle are interesting, as giving in juxta-position fine specimens of the work ofthe reign of Henry VIII , Elizabeth,and James I.; but if we were temptedinto these details, a chapter, not apage or two, would have to be writtenon the old abbey. More than fortyyears since, as I can just remember,the church was a yet more incongru-ous piece of patchwork than now. Butabout the year 1863 it was very care-fully restored, and the blocked arches of the triforium and eastern end wererendered much less unsightly. Another great change also was made about 1887,. BATTLEFIELD. 514 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Shbbwsbukt. when, chiefly at the expense of one person, a new choir was erected. Of theother churches of Shrewsbury, St. Alknmnds, which claims Ethelfleda, Alfredsdaughter, as its foundress, and was once, like St. Marys, collegiate, has a gracefulspire, but the steeple only is ancient. St. Julians was rebuilt rather more than acentury since, and retains only a mere scrap of its old work. St. Giless has faredrather better, for some Norman work still remains. St. Chads, once the mostimportant church within the walls, is represented only by a tattered traces back its history to the eiglith century, and claims to stand on the siteof the palace of the Princes of Powis. Late in the last century the tower fell,shattering much of the structure, so the Salopians of that day built themselvesa circular clmrch with a Doric portico, adding a tower, lest men
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