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THE ANTIQ_UARY: A MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY OF THE PAST. EDITED BY EDWARD M.A.WALFORD, FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF BALLIOL AND LATECOLLEGE, OXFORD, EDITOR OF THE "GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE; AUTHOR OF THE "COUNTY ETC. ETC.FAMILIES," Instructed theby Antiquary times. He he he cannot but be wise.must, is, Shakespeare. VOL. 11. DECEMBER.JULY London: ELLIOT Paternoster Row.STOCK, 62, New York: W. BOUTON.J. 1880.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Ancient Briton with Crotal or Spear Bell i8 Boar with Sanctus Bell 20Roman Sacrificial Priest and Priestess with Sistra .Cybele's 20 Cymbala 20 or Saxon Hammered Bell .Ancient Celtic 21 Saxon or Early Cast English 21Hand-Bell; theA Funeral Procession from Bayeux Tapestry 22 Doorway at Killeshin 23 Cormac's CashelChapel, 24 CO. Wicklow .Kilcronig, 24 RoscreaSt. Cronan's Church, 25 Insignia of the City and See of GlasgowArmorial 48,49 Death-maskShakespeare's 64; 65 Old Sarum .... . 67 Rowlandson's Caricatures II2- 1 14 Specimens of Ancient Bookcovers 152, 153 Fysshynge with an Angle 160 Easby Church .... 216 Likeness of Christ .The 257 Ancient Satirical Drawing of .,, 258 CEMMTHE GETTYOLD ST. PAUrS. and size of the notwitii-which,building, I cannot but.standing Dugdale's authority, think was about feet in the clear596 long as shown the(Dugdale says 690 feet) by scale on Hollar's In a workground plan. "The called London in the ofPlates," possessionAntiquary< the of the isSociety Antiquaries, length described in the as feet.margin 720 Now, the extreme of1880. Cathedral isJUL Y, length Ely 560 and it is the on this side of thefeet, longest " to Handbook ofAlps according Murray's Ib St paulU the Cathedrals." The extreme of thelength St. is butpresent Paul's, externally, 512 feet, a Lecture delivered Edmund and that of St. atTAg sudstatue B. feet.( of by Peter's, Rome, 607 the St. PauFsF.R.I.B.A.,Ferrey, Esq., before I we con-Therefore, think, may reasonably Society.)Ecdesiological clude 'that Hollar's is correct. In sim-plan of a Latin Old St.plicity plan, plain cross. A.VING sketched the of the Paul's was like or Winchester ithad nothistory Ely ; its the intricate andand commented on of such aCathedral, irregular plan I will to Cathedral as It is forsurroundings, proceed Canterbury. interesting make some remarks on its a moment to , it in this togeneral compare respect architectural or onfeatures and the Continent to NotreChichester,peculiarities. at the west we find at and to Seville allCommencing end, Dame, Paris, Cathedral, evidence that the was and with two aisles on either or tosevere,facade plain side, Antwerp the ofother ofthe with three.judging buildings Cathedral,by analogy same and fromtheviews ofthe south side In the nave ofOld St Paul's wasaboutdate, span of the nave Hollar. men- the same as feet. The tri-given by Dugdale Peterborough, 38 tions no western towers as existed at forium was circular windows. Athaving lighted by time but Stow describes them. Westminsterany ; minutely Abbey, spherical triangular In the how- aslater edition of Stow we thiswindows, know,by Strype, shaped occupy is said of these towers. Itseems not usual at Walthamever, nothing very position ; Abbey curious that a cathedral of the first are circular and at the auxwindows,magni- Abbaye tude no at circularshould have western windows filled withtowers, Hommes, Caen,possessed when such a small as It should be observed how widecomparatively building tracery. Lichfield Cathedral in three towers. for Norman windows are those to the aislesall,has, rich of aMediaeval churches abroad were in the nave. view on a(Hollar gives large towers. There were nine at seven scale of one of its NormanClugny, them, retaining intended for and seven at The ancient CourtwasRheiras, formerly garb). Consistory pro- in ofto Mr. Beresford the westernmost the northLaon, Hope's bably bayaccording " Cathedrals of the Nineteenth At nave aisle. down the letusCentury." Proceeding nave, in but a small next to look at theToumai, also,Belgium, though pause elegant chantry we see five towers but in our of Thomas betweencathedral, ; chapel Bishop Kempe, own land even a of the scale of the on north side of near thebuilding piers nave, that at hasbutone tower and Such a is not unusual forSalisbur)' spire, crossing. position the feature of the the of benefactors to amemorialsforming crowning structure, great and this was the case at Old St. so thatprobably building, placed every worshipper Paul's. ofThe the westernmost of could not fail to observe them. At Win-plan piers the as shown not we have in thedoes chesternave, by Hollar, suggest Cathedral, similarly towers which if the chantries of William ofany ; consequently, they nave, Bishops atmust have been outside the and and Wellsexisted, aisles, Edington ;Wykeham like those to Vv^ells Cathedral. Cathedral that of Bubwith.Bishop in at the west doors the I have little doubt the central tower wasEntering spectator must have been the vast treated like a lantern weknow it never hadimpressed by length VOL. II.PAOLD ST. UL'S. an and that at and at Lichfield Cathe-bells. This was quite English feature, WhitbyAbbey the axis of themore effective than the Continental of choir also inclined todral,plan The the same direction.a flbche at the eight flyingcrossing. not The the usualbuttresses, though probably originally Lady Chapel occupied very at the easternmost end of thefor the form antower, placedesigned integral part building, a as was not formed an extension ofof the andmust have hadcomposition, very but, usual, the constructional of the under thepart choir,striking appearance. main instead ofa semi-detachedThe in Old St. Paul's were structureroof,transepts made to their further eastwards. One of the chiefimportant features, owing great glories of Paul's mustalso had aisles on either Old St. have been itsprojection. They splendid Eastern the ofwhereas of our cathedrals resemblanceside, rose-window,many larger have eastern aisles. In the time of which to the south window of Notreonly transept wasthese latter aisles seem to have out to meDame, Paris,Hollar, kindly pointed walled doubt some since Mr.been There can be little years by James Fergusson.up. the eastern aisles of the were used Underneath this was a seven-light window,transepts afor as was of the of the rosechapels, customary. forming part composition The with above. the ofa circu-cloisters were assmall, compared Notwithstanding rarity those of Westminster or Gloucester lar window at the east end of our churchesAbbey ; and itthe fact is that St. Paul's was not a must be remembered thatcathedrals,monastery, and therefore it at Old St. Paul's therewas still thedid not cloisters. character-require large nowhere mentions the of istic and no Continentalend,Dugdale position English square the but I should The central of the "Nine;sacristy this, imagine, may apse. portion " have Altars at Durham has abeen in the inner of Cathedral rosevery likely angle the north next the choir : it was window. Westminster with its chevettransept, Abbey a low covered with a flat is far more French in the character of itsprobably building lead-covered roof. eastern termination. About the choir stalls there is little to The number of and altars men-say, chapels as those Hollar were not tioned is andrepresented by by Dugdale very large ; these, but of the with thenumerous tombsandoriginal, Jacobean together brasses,period. so an the retables and screens and otherTheTreasury, important appurtenance shrines, in the Middle stood between must have a mostfurniture,Ages, probably given gorgeous the buttresses of the effect to the and taken off" thenorth choir aisle. At interior, chilling Norwich Cathedral it formed a choir of the mere architectural frame-chapel, appearance as is still the incase some of the French however beautiful the latter havework, may cathedrals. If it stood in this been.itposition, would have been carried on an like the The did not a monotonouschoirarch, comprise between the buttresses on the of the same in the triforiumchantry chapels, repetition design south side ofthe choir. The cause forthis and the as there was in ittreat- evidencewindows, ment thatthewindowsofSt. Faith's of the work of no less than three distinctisobviously Church the between dates. The window seems to havebeing underneath, space tracery the buttresses had to be been aover so as of beautifulbridged very description. not to obscure the The effect must It is rather curious that noHght. wall-passages have been as a line of shadow are shown in of Hollar's views. Theirpretty, deep any would have been formed inunder the absence a mediaeval church ofsuchchapels. impor- There are several instances of tance would be unusual and I have nochantry chapels very ; between as at St. doubt that but were acci-buttresses, Albans, Exeter, they really existed, and Chichester cathedrals. inomitted Hollar's valuable en-dentally I will not dilate on the recent interest- gravings. discoveries made Mr. as that After theing by Penrose, observing splendid proportions has of the withgentleman described them exterior of Old St. Paul's itsalready fully lofty elsewhere but he has with the on must have; proved scarcely spire, spectator entering a shadow of that the axis of the choir seen the severe then thedoubt, nave,twelve-bayed toinclined the north. I would inremark treated a rather moreonly dignified transeptOLD ST. FAVrS. ornate the rich tors have as to the in theand,style passing on, choir, disputed passage " from the nave a Psalms : Over Edom will I cast outapproached by grand flight (Ix. 8) of and last the beautiful traceried rose- as it in our somesteps, my shoe," version,appears window at the east end. not "shoe" but intranslating "glove," One cannot but admire the consummate reference to this custom. The controversy skill of the mediaeval as a in their at rate cannot fail us of theto remindmen, rule, any "choice of sites for the churches. The German handschuh."great of St. Paul's was Inchosen most this