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Page 20 - The outworks were not so well constructed as the tower, having fallen to decay, and mouldered even to rubbish, whereas, the materials of the castle continue firm and solid. The moat is, in a great measure, choked up ; the only part now apparent being that which served as the ditch of the city, situated on the southern side. On...
Page 30 - ... remaining to be mentioned is that on the eastern side of the city, by far the most extensive, through which the high road leads to Sandwich, Deal, Dover, and Romney marsh ; that to Sandwich and Deal passes from Burgate along St. Paul's and the borough of Longport, being very spacious. On the north side is the wall which bounds the precinct of St. Augustine's abbey; a particular description of which will be given hereafter. On part of the same, adjoining to Longport, the Kent and Canterbury hospital,...
Page 62 - Trinity chapel, is a small oblong spot, partly enclosed with open gothic stonework, once the holy sanctuary of our Lady Undercroft. This chapel consisted of a small body and chancel, divided by a step in the middle; the altar at the east end is destroyed, but the niche over...
Page 36 - All the monasteries of my realm/ saith king Edgar, in his charter to the abbey of Malmesbury d, dated in the year of Christ 974, * to * the sight are nothing but worm-eaten and * rotten timber and boards.' And that upon the Norman conquest such timber fabrics grew out of use, and gave place to stone buildings raised upon arches ; a form of structure introduced by that nation, furnished with stone from Caen, in Normandy. * In the * year 1087 (Stow's words of the cathedral of b P.
Page 61 - ... parts of the church eastward from the screen at the entrance into the choir. It is a work apparently of the time of Archbishop Lanfranc, soon after the Norman conquest, and left entire, notwithstanding the casualties...
Page 11 - London, was the largest and best built of any of the portals, and makes a very handsome appearance, standing between two lofty and spacious round towers, erected in the river, on the western side of the stream.
Page 62 - was not showed but to noblemen and especial friends. Here the Virgin Mother had a habitation, but somewhat dark, inclosed with a double sept or rail of iron for fear of thieves; for indeed I never saw a thing more laden with riches: lights being brought, we saw more than a royal spectacle, in beauty it far surpassed that of Walsingham.
Page 6 - ... who had succeeded to the archbishopric, completed the repairs of the cathedral. Canterbury gradually recovered from the desolated state into which it had been so recently thrown, and at the time of the Domesday Survey, it had again become a considerable city. Stow affirms, that " at the time of the conquest, it exceeded London in its buildings.