. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . mis-chief done by the fire, the monks determined toerect a magnificent chapel to the Holy Trinity,instead of a small one, which was at the east endof Lanfrancs church. They did so; and theirarchitect took care that this work should be dis-tinguishable enough from that to which it wasadded, by the difference of taste, though l>y nomeans inferior to it in elegance and grandeur. He raised it therefore over a most stately un-dercroft, about twenty-four feet pitch, designe
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . mis-chief done by the fire, the monks determined toerect a magnificent chapel to the Holy Trinity,instead of a small one, which was at the east endof Lanfrancs church. They did so; and theirarchitect took care that this work should be dis-tinguishable enough from that to which it wasadded, by the difference of taste, though l>y nomeans inferior to it in elegance and grandeur. He raised it therefore over a most stately un-dercroft, about twenty-four feet pitch, designed(as it should seem) to be finished at the east endin a circular form ; a form in use for the east endof churches from the time of the Saxons, as thecurious describer of Ely Minster has side aisles are divided from it by four pair ofremarkable strong pillars on each side, the lastpair disposed suitable to the circular slender pillars in the middle of the vaultassist in supporting the pavement above. The descent into this vault is now by eleven orthe arches are some circular, others mitred ; for. itnblot ITOWne 269 twelve stops from without. Most of the windowsof it have been bricked up ; but it is still light-some enough to see ii crucifix with a personstanding^ on each side of it over an arch, at theeast end of the vault which opens into that,which I suppose the place called Bishop Becketstomb, as lofty and about as lightsome as this,some of the windows here also being bricked form is a circle, about thirty feet diameter,the roof arched with ribs meeting in the groins between the ribs of the arch areadorned with the capital letters I and M semee(as the heralds call it), the Is are crowned. The addition of it to the chapel of the Trinityseems an after-thought, in respect of the firstdesign, whether it was erected at the same timewith that or not. Be that as it will, in the words of the allotmentof it to the first prebendary it is not me
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