. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . reat tower wherethe present one stands. I think it needless tocopy the descriptions given of it, and shall rathershow what I suppose were the works which An-selm had designed, and which the Priors Ernulphand Conrad magnificently finished. Eadmers account is, that Ernulph erected theruinous fore part of the chm-ch which Lanfranchad built, \clejactam priorem partem ecclesim quamI^anfrancus (ecUJicaverat,\ in a most splendidmanner. This I should understand of rebuilding the
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . reat tower wherethe present one stands. I think it needless tocopy the descriptions given of it, and shall rathershow what I suppose were the works which An-selm had designed, and which the Priors Ernulphand Conrad magnificently finished. Eadmers account is, that Ernulph erected theruinous fore part of the chm-ch which Lanfranchad built, \clejactam priorem partem ecclesim quamI^anfrancus (ecUJicaverat,\ in a most splendidmanner. This I should understand of rebuilding thebody to the west front, which both Stigand andLanfranc had left in a ruinous condition, or quitefallen down. Mr. Battely by his plan supposes Lanfranc hadbuilt a body; and by his history, that Ernulphpulled this down and rebuilt it; though his^in-terpretation of priorem partem seems to confoundthis with the choir. However, the history showsplainly enough that the body of the church waswhat he and Conrad rebuilt and finished, per-haps in the manner Anselm had designed. Pos-sibly it might be after his designs that Conrad. VIKW hllOM THI.^I TV ri| WKSl 257 •cidorned the ceiliiiji, of thf clioii- in such a iivaimeras made Lanfrancs name forgotten. That Lanfranc ceiled his choir may perhaps bea doubt; probably he did : but if that was not leftto be done by Conrad, the rich paintings withwhich he adorned it to make it a representationof heaven, might occasion it to be called Conradsglorious choir. All beauties of this kind were destroyed by thelire in 1174; in the choir especially, where itraged so, that the lead from the roof was meltedinto the joints of the pavement, as appeared at thepewing of the choir about the year 1706; whensome alterations being made in a part of thepavement, as much of that lead was picked upby some of the workmen as made two largeglue-pots. Here therefore the fire was stojjped; and weshall soon see other proofs that the damage doneby that
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