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Title: A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Gostling, William, 1696-1777
Subjects: Canterbury (England) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Canterbury, W. Blackley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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reat tower wherethe present one stands. I think it needless tocopy the descriptions given of it, and shall rathershow what I suppose were the works which An-selm had designed, and which the Priors Ernulphand Conrad magnificently finished. Eadmers account is, that Ernulph erected theruinous fore part of the chm-ch which Lanfranchad built, \clejactam priorem partem ecclesim quamI^anfrancus (ecUJicaverat,\ in a most splendidmanner. This I should understand of rebuilding thebody to the west front, which both Stigand andLanfranc had left in a ruinous condition, or quitefallen down. Mr. Battely by his plan supposes Lanfranc hadbuilt a body; and by his history, that Ernulphpulled this down and rebuilt it; though his^in-terpretation of priorem partem seems to confoundthis with the choir. However, the history showsplainly enough that the body of the church waswhat he and Conrad rebuilt and finished, per-haps in the manner Anselm had designed. Pos-sibly it might be after his designs that Conrad
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VIKW hllOM THI.^I TV ri;AIi:i..l.OOhl.NC WKSl 257 •cidorned the ceiliiiji, of thf clioii- in such a iivaimeras made Lanfrancs name forgotten. That Lanfranc ceiled his choir may perhaps bea doubt; probably he did : but if that was not leftto be done by Conrad, the rich paintings withwhich he adorned it to make it a representationof heaven, might occasion it to be called Conradsglorious choir. All beauties of this kind were destroyed by thelire in 1174; in the choir especially, where itraged so, that the lead from the roof was meltedinto the joints of the pavement, as appeared at thepewing of the choir about the year 1706; whensome alterations being made in a part of thepavement, as much of that lead was picked upby some of the workmen as made two largeglue-pots. Here therefore the fire was stojjped; and weshall soon see other proofs that the damage doneby that tire, was by no means such as recpiired therebuilding the church from the foundation. The choir is separated fiom the side ai

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