Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . Market Harborough Church, Leicestershire. THE CHURCHES. 187 Divine service continually, we shall have the advan-tage of finding the church still existing, perhaps withvery little alteration in its general architectural out-line ; but we shall have to imagine the walls coveredwith fresco painting of Old and New Testamentstory ; the windows filled with gem-like glass ; the. Chapel of Edward the Confessor, Westminster Abbey. chancel screens and the rood loft with its sacredfigures ; the chantry chapels ; the altar tombs witheffigies
Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . Market Harborough Church, Leicestershire. THE CHURCHES. 187 Divine service continually, we shall have the advan-tage of finding the church still existing, perhaps withvery little alteration in its general architectural out-line ; but we shall have to imagine the walls coveredwith fresco painting of Old and New Testamentstory ; the windows filled with gem-like glass ; the. Chapel of Edward the Confessor, Westminster Abbey. chancel screens and the rood loft with its sacredfigures ; the chantry chapels ; the altar tombs witheffigies of knight and ladybefore altar, rood and statue. the lights twinkling We shall see from the Constitution of ArchbishopGray, quoted below, that the parishioners were, by i88 PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE. ancient custom, liable for the maintenance and repairof the body and tower of their church ; the fifth ofthe extravagants of Stratford, Archbishop of York(1342),* records that this was done by means of a pro-portionate tax on the estates and farms of the the records of bishops Visitations, we learn,further, that the bishops exercised greater power inthe matter of church building in old times than theydo now. They had not only the power to requirethat the church should be kept in good repair, butthat, where necessary, it should be enlarged. Thus,Bishop Stapledon (1309) orders the parishioners ofIlfracombe, since t
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