The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . Kirkstall Abbey was founded in the reign of KingStephen for monks of the Cistertian order, and its firstinmates were removed hither from Bemoldswyk, inMay, 1152. The curious Doorway represented inthe cut, and which forms an entrance to ths Abbeyon the north-western side, may therefore be regardedas an undoubted specimen of Anglo-Norman masoniy,of the time above stated. It consists of a recessedarch of three grades, and among i
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . Kirkstall Abbey was founded in the reign of KingStephen for monks of the Cistertian order, and its firstinmates were removed hither from Bemoldswyk, inMay, 1152. The curious Doorway represented inthe cut, and which forms an entrance to ths Abbeyon the north-western side, may therefore be regardedas an undoubted specimen of Anglo-Norman masoniy,of the time above stated. It consists of a recessedarch of three grades, and among its other moulding-s,exhibits the triplicated zig-zag and the embattled clustered kind of columns, which support theinner arch, is an advance towards the Pointed style;and, with other parts of the Abbey Church, where si-milar characteristics exist, evidently refers to a periodwhen that style was first beg-an to be introduced.* * In a future Number, we shall insert a particular accountof Kirkstall Abbey, which is one of the most interesting andpicturesque ruins in the kingdom. THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. 16!) ELIZABETH COLLEGE, This college, which was originally called the Schoolof Queen Elizabeth, was founded under the LettersPatent of that sovereign, in the year 1563, as a grammar school, in which the youth of the island,(Juventus,) may be better instructed in good learningand virtue. The temple, or church of the suppressedorder of the Grey Friars, {Friars-Minors, or Cor-delliers,) with its immediate precincts, was assignedfor its use, together with eighty quarters of wheatrent, accruing from lands in different parts of theisland, which had been given to the friars for dispen-sations, masses, obits, &c. By the statutes of 1563,the school was divided into six classes, and books andexercises were appointed respectively for each; theScholars to be admitted being required to read per-fectly, and to recite an approved catechism of thechristian religio
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