. The greater abbeys of England . Glastonbury Wessex had granted his charter of privileges to theabbey, in order to render the act more solemn, hesigned it in the lignea Basilica^ which, following theadvice of St Aldhelm, he refrained from attemptingeven to beautify. This cherished relic of antiquity wastotally destroyed by the fire of 1184, and upon thesite of the old wooden structure was built the presentlady chapel, now often miscalled St Josephs beautiful specimen of thirteenth-century Gothicarchitecture was finished in 1216, and the chronicler,Adam de Domerham, thus records th
. The greater abbeys of England . Glastonbury Wessex had granted his charter of privileges to theabbey, in order to render the act more solemn, hesigned it in the lignea Basilica^ which, following theadvice of St Aldhelm, he refrained from attemptingeven to beautify. This cherished relic of antiquity wastotally destroyed by the fire of 1184, and upon thesite of the old wooden structure was built the presentlady chapel, now often miscalled St Josephs beautiful specimen of thirteenth-century Gothicarchitecture was finished in 1216, and the chronicler,Adam de Domerham, thus records the fact: He [KingHenry II] completed the church of squared stones ofthe most splendid work, in the place where from thebeginning the old church had stood, sparing nothingthat could add to its ornamentation. The greater church, dedicated to SS. Peter andPaul, was only beginning to rise from its ashes whenHenry died. This delayed the progress of reconstruc-tion, and the vast building of which only a very in-adequate idea may be form
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