The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . his extreme lengthinesswas not accompanied (perhaps some would say, not counteracted inits effect) by any unusual spaciousness, such as the largest continentalchurches possessed, for the heig
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . his extreme lengthinesswas not accompanied (perhaps some would say, not counteracted inits effect) by any unusual spaciousness, such as the largest continentalchurches possessed, for the height of the vaulting was only 100 feet,or equal to that at Westminster. Indeed, if we can fancy the mid-dle avenue of that Abbey extended to double its present length, andterminated by (instead of the apsis) an end similar to those of thetransepts, we shall have a tolerable idea of the interior of Old This vast pile seems to have had double aisles through-out,—a splendour of which England affords no other example; and,though patched in so many styles, its general form was remarkablysimple, having square terminations, none of the low chapels so usualat the east end, and no minor transept, porch, or other great eastern rose window, above a row of tall lancet lights, musthave been singularly beautiful. Under the choir was an Early English crypt, used at the parish 12 CHURCH OV ST. FAfTH church of St. Faitli, and adjoining the west front (and correspond-ing in place to the Jerusalem chamber at Westminster), was theparish church of St. Gregory; so that, as Fuller said, St. Paulsmay he called the mother church indeed, having one babe in herbody and another in her arms. South of the nave was an octagonalchapter-house, standing detached in the centre of the cloisters, whichenclosed a small square, not larger than that at Westminster. Thesecloisters were decorated in the reign of Henry V., with a verycelebrated Dance of Death, painted on wood, and repr
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