The Alloa illustrated family almanac, district directory and general register for the county of Clackmannan for 1887 . followed the fire of 1172 ; the nave was rebuilt in thefourteenth century, and the central tower was com-pleted in 1500. The following are given as the mostinteresting parts remaining in the present church :—(l)The site of the murder of Beckett, which stillshows the marks, and the altar erected in commemora-tion, (2) the site of the shrine itself, shown by the roughflooring in the centre of its chapel. King Henryscommissioners having destroyed the very pavement onwhich it stoo
The Alloa illustrated family almanac, district directory and general register for the county of Clackmannan for 1887 . followed the fire of 1172 ; the nave was rebuilt in thefourteenth century, and the central tower was com-pleted in 1500. The following are given as the mostinteresting parts remaining in the present church :—(l)The site of the murder of Beckett, which stillshows the marks, and the altar erected in commemora-tion, (2) the site of the shrine itself, shown by the roughflooring in the centre of its chapel. King Henryscommissioners having destroyed the very pavement onwhich it stood, (3) a few remaining windows of richtwelfth-century glass, unique in England and scarcelyequalled on the Continent, (4) monuments of theBlack Prince, of Henry IV. and his queen, and ofseveral of the archbishops from Peekham to Pole, (5)fine remains of Norman fresco-painting in the apse ofSt. Gabriel in the crypt, (6) the choir itself, builtthrough the ten years succeeding 1174, an interestingspecimen of the gradual transition from the Normanstyle progressing in England at the latter end of thetwelfth CHRIST CHURCH GATEWAY, CANTERBURY.
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