The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . nd specimens of Roman pottery have beenfound in various parts of this city, together with tesselattdpavements of beautiful workmanship. The walls containRoman bricks in abundance ; and there were three semi-circular aYches formed with the same materials, standingabout twenty years ago. Interesting as the specimens of antiquity found in Can-terbury and its immediate neighbourhood, unquestionablyare, and though they
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . nd specimens of Roman pottery have beenfound in various parts of this city, together with tesselattdpavements of beautiful workmanship. The walls containRoman bricks in abundance ; and there were three semi-circular aYches formed with the same materials, standingabout twenty years ago. Interesting as the specimens of antiquity found in Can-terbury and its immediate neighbourhood, unquestionablyare, and though they are undoubtedly of very early date,yet it must admit of some doubt whether this Ancitnt sculp-ture, preserved in the little church of Westbere, about fourmiles distant from Canterbury, does not exceed all of them,whether considered as unique specimens of carving, or aslaying claim to our notice as reliques of antiquity; theseappearing to be some of the earliest examples of the art ofsculpture in its infancy, at least in this part of the island,probably among our Saxon ancestor?, about the era of theirfirst conversion to Christianity. ii!!liiiiiiiiii:i!iliii,.i;ilillili: II f. \ I 1 ABBEY AT KINGS LANGLEY, HER TFORDSHJRE. Kixgs Langley is a small irregular village situated onthe high road to Aylesbury and Buckingham, and nearly op-posite to Abbots Langley, but on the other side of the GadeRiver. Thougii now of little importance, it was fonnerly aresidence of the English sovereigns, who were owners of themanor ; and one of whom, Henry the Third, built a Palacehere, in which Edmond of Langley, fifth son of Edward theTtiird, was born. Very few traces of this building remain,and they are principally confined to a line of foundationwall, which includes a considerable plot of ground, and evin-ces the building to have been uf a square form. Part of the site is now occupied by a farm-house of navery prepossessing appearance, which exhibits the an-cient bake-house, and some other vestig
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