. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . shing;and particularly to our cathedral, not only by hisroyal munificence to Archbishop Egelnoth, who,presiding here from 1020 to 1038, began andfinished the repair of it, but by making a presentto it of his crown of gold. The successors of Egelnoth took so little careto follow his good example, that when Lanfranccame to the see, anno dom. 1070, he found hiscathedral so reduced by accidents and neglect,that (as Mr. Battely says, page 68) he rebuilt itfrom the ground, (e)
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . shing;and particularly to our cathedral, not only by hisroyal munificence to Archbishop Egelnoth, who,presiding here from 1020 to 1038, began andfinished the repair of it, but by making a presentto it of his crown of gold. The successors of Egelnoth took so little careto follow his good example, that when Lanfranccame to the see, anno dom. 1070, he found hiscathedral so reduced by accidents and neglect,that (as Mr. Battely says, page 68) he rebuilt itfrom the ground, (e) But I rather believe a thorough repair of greatpart of it was all that he found necessary; forthough a fire three years before his coming haddone considerable mischief here, particularlyamong the ancient charters and records, (as says, page 7,) the stone-work was incom-bustible ; and, as neglect of divine service in thecathedral is not mentioned among the many faultslaid to Stigands charge by the monkish writers,we may suppose it was kept up, so that Lanfrancfound a choir here capable of being fitted to his. Canute . t IV to/J ^ji-ut tii/ffii/ ({(^^t/u/iii ;S^ct/ttm*u(o trtt? tUi-;? / -^ ? ? ^^ ^ .- //1 ;:iO. ^/itu> Iu^rieti af fh//r//,,>/i/-. 109 taste, and ;lit it l)etter to make liis new workcomply Avitli the old, than to pull all down andrebuild from the foundations. This I think willfairly account for the fabric, even in our days,being- not so straight as it should be, and make itappear of greater antiquity than many suppose when I speak of this as Lanfrancswork, it is to distinguish it from other parts ofthe building; but much of it I take to be of a(hite prior to his time by many years. It begins at the west door of the choir, to whichwe go up by many steps, for it is raised high onvaults and pillars, not of the Norman taste, butthat of King Alfreds time, about the year 900,[See Chap. X.] the east end being finished (as inMr
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