. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . fugees still meet in the aisle for worship, after theirfathers ways and in the French tongue. We pass now to the exterior of the cathedral, into the precincts of thegreat Benedictine monastery of Christ Church. The conventual buildings atCanterbmy were situated on the northern side of the cathedral; that edificestanding near to the boundary of the enclosure, both on the west and on thesouth. A massive wall surrounds the whole, so that it was like the temple ofold, at once a fortress and the house of Go
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . fugees still meet in the aisle for worship, after theirfathers ways and in the French tongue. We pass now to the exterior of the cathedral, into the precincts of thegreat Benedictine monastery of Christ Church. The conventual buildings atCanterbmy were situated on the northern side of the cathedral; that edificestanding near to the boundary of the enclosure, both on the west and on thesouth. A massive wall surrounds the whole, so that it was like the temple ofold, at once a fortress and the house of God. This wall, though of earlierdate than the Norman Conquest, was greatly strengthened by Lanfranc. Muchis of later date, but probably some parts which still remain are his work. Themain approach to the cathedral from the town is by Christ Church Gate, at theend of Mercery Lane—a grand structure in the Later Perpendicular style, builtby Prior Goldstone in the year 1517. As we enter this the cathedral, vast inheight as in length, at once confronts us. The intervening strip of ground was. O ?—I oo o ow h <: Q w h^a: ma:w H < CQ Cantekhiuy J TffE PRECINCTS. 15 once the cemetery, and that south and east of tlie choir was the nionastorv fr;n( here was tlie school founded ])y Archbisliop Theodore, wlien lie intro-duced the study of Greek, so lonp: as twelve centuries ago. The comparativenarrowness of the open space makes it impossible to obtain a very completegeneral view of this southern or of the western face. The part of the cathedralwhich is more immediately opposite to the visitor is the nave of Chillenden, withthe southern porch and the comparatively low western tower, Avhose date has beenalready given, while from the other end rises on high the magnificent Bell HarryTower. Near the eastern end of thechurch, on the northern side, arethe ruins of the infirmarv, now to aconsiderable extent freed from thehouses into which they had beenincorporated, and not f
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