Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . hat event (nearthe close of the fifth century) the nameless village on the spot. But as timepassed on, and fishing prospered, there arose on a green hill—most likelywhat is now called Fullers Hill—a small church dedicated to St. Benedict. Itis mentioned in Domesday Book as possessed by Ailmarus, Bishop (of Elmham)in the time of Edward the Confessor, and contemporaneously with the compila-tion of the survey by William (de Beaufeu), the Bishop of Thetford. After-wards the well-known Herbert de Losinga, wh
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . hat event (nearthe close of the fifth century) the nameless village on the spot. But as timepassed on, and fishing prospered, there arose on a green hill—most likelywhat is now called Fullers Hill—a small church dedicated to St. Benedict. Itis mentioned in Domesday Book as possessed by Ailmarus, Bishop (of Elmham)in the time of Edward the Confessor, and contemporaneously with the compila-tion of the survey by William (de Beaufeu), the Bishop of Thetford. After-wards the well-known Herbert de Losinga, whose simony is feared by his mostrecent biographers* to be too well attested to be groundless, succeeded to thesee. Among the fruits of his penitence are Norwich Cathedral, and, accordingto general belief, the churcli of St. Nicholas in Great Yarmouth. The latter • Dean GouJburu and Mr. Symouds. 472 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Yaumouth was sufficiently advanced to bo mentioned, with all things that belong to thesame, as granted by him to the Benedictine monks of the former in the Charter. ST. NICHOLAS, YAKMOLTH: THE EXTEltlOH. of the Foundation of Norwich Cathedral, signed and sealed September 24th,1101. It was a simple cross church, with transepts but no aisles, thoughperhaps with apsidal chapels opening eastward from the transepts, as at NoiwichCathedral and Thetford Priory. All that now remains of it is the portionof the central tower between the bell-chamber and the tower arches. Thematerial consists of beach boulders, pieces of stone, and tufa or trass of theRhine, from the vicinity of Andernach, probably brought to Yarmouth as the lapse of about seventy years, the nave walls were lengthened, andpierced for the present arcade of seven arches, to which lean-to aisles were added,while the tower was elevated to about its present height. That the builders ofthat day consulted appearances is clear from the ashlar facings of the sidesof the tower seen from the town,
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