. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . church is thereforewhat was standing before the fire; and accord-ingly the account of the repairs consists in tellingus how many pillars were erected, and archesturned, from time to time. But when we are told the pillars were at thisrepair lengthened almost twelve feet, this is per-plexing. It is not to be doubted, that when thestalls of the choir added such a quantity of fuelto what was fallen in from the roof, that theflames rose to fifteen cubits high, the upper endso
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . church is thereforewhat was standing before the fire; and accord-ingly the account of the repairs consists in tellingus how many pillars were erected, and archesturned, from time to time. But when we are told the pillars were at thisrepair lengthened almost twelve feet, this is per-plexing. It is not to be doubted, that when thestalls of the choir added such a quantity of fuelto what was fallen in from the roof, that theflames rose to fifteen cubits high, the upper endsof the pillars on each side not being defended bythe partition wall, but exposed to the violence ofthose flames, might be damaged so as to requiretwelve feet of thorough repair; but if this waswhat Gervase meant by lengthening, surely hemight have expressed himself better. For theheight of the walls and roofs before the fire maybe pretty exactly determined by marks to be seenat this day ; and how such walls and roofs shouldever be suited to pillars so much shorter than thepresent ones, I will not pretend to iHi***^ CAMTlfiJRBUlErf 261 That iRW rapilals weiv added more beautifulthan the old ones, I ean easily believe ; and can-not help observing, that in .some of these, and inmany of the smaller ones, the architects seem tohave had an eye to tlu^ more elei^ant taste of theancient orders of the Greek and Jloman buildings,as we shall see again when we come to the chapelof the Holy Trinity. At present we are in Lanfrancs building, on the top of the stairs whichbrought us to the south aisle of it; where on theright hand is a door and stair-case leading up toa beautiful chapel over that of St. Michael, and inthe same style, being part of Archbishop Sudburysrepairs.^ The roof is of ribbed arches, and atthe key-stones where the ribs meet, are the facesof three members of the monastery, whose namesand degrees were written beside them, but arenow partly obliterated. The easte
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