This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...the duke banished the "proud priest."--An interview again occurred, and Lanfranc engaged to visit the supreme pontiff, who granted a dispensation to the duke and his duchess on their founding two abbeys, respectively for nuns and monks. J By the Domesday Survey it appears, that it possessed many estates in the counties ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...the duke banished the "proud priest."--An interview again occurred, and Lanfranc engaged to visit the supreme pontiff, who granted a dispensation to the duke and his duchess on their founding two abbeys, respectively for nuns and monks. J By the Domesday Survey it appears, that it possessed many estates in the counties of Essex, Dorset, Devon, and Gloucester, in England. These distant lands were occasionally visited by the lady abbess. M. de la Rue tells us that he saw a diary of the Abbess Georgetta du Molley Bacon, in which it is recorded, that she embarked at the fort of Caen, Aug. 16, 1370, with fifteen attendants, and landed at London, whence she proceeded to Felsted, in Essex; and that she returned home the following year.--Essais Historique, &c. torn. ii. p. 19. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. 31 As the object of the present work is architecture, rather than monastic history, I must proceed to point out the peculiarities of the church which still remain. Considering this edifice as an indubitable and almost unaltered specimen of genuine Norman architecture, it must be regretted that the accompanying illustrations are not more numerous and more systematic. A general plan, an elevation of one side, sections, and delineations of the west front, are required to do justice to such a building; and the annexed prints can only serve to shew the architectural members of a few particular parts. The accompanying prints represent, first, an elevation and section of an entrance gate-way, which displays a semi-circular arched opening, with three arcades above, crowned by a parapet of more modern date. The mouldings, string-courses, capitals, and vaulting, are of the Romanesque style, and correspond with many examples in England. The characteristic featur...
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