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Title: An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, G. Gilbert (George Gilbert), 1839-1897
Subjects: Church architecture Church architecture
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall and co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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prefect of the royalbuildings under Charles the great, and was well skilled in architecture.** » My authorities for this account are : (i) the paper contributed by the late professor Willis to the fifthvolume of the Archceological Journal (1848); and (2) Lenoirs Architecture Monastique, i. 23-26. The authorhas in each instance given a fac-simile of the original plan. A copy was published by Mabillon, in thesecond volume of his Annals of the Benedictine Order ; and in 1844, Keller, of Zurich, issued a veiy exactfac-simile very nearly of the size of the original. Charlemagne himself was a frequent guest at St. Galls. Karoliis magmes Imperator^ says Ekkehardus(Vit. B. Notkeri, c. 29, G., p. 277, quoted by Willis), in tantum dilexit locum S. Galh, et ita familtaris eratfratribus, ut eum non aliter noininarent nisi—7ioster Karolus. uuu Eginhardus had married Imma, the daughter of Charlemagne, but later in life, no doubt upon the deathof his wife, he had adopted the monastic profession.
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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 75 St. Gall was born in Ireland in the middle of the sixth century. He accompanied St.Columbanus into France in 585, and finally established the monastery which ever after borehis name/^ in a desert spot called Himilinberg, near the lake of Constance. The rule ofSt. Benedict was introduced here by St. Othmar, who became its first abbot in 720. Gozbertus, to whom this plan is addressed, commenced a complete rebuilding of the churchand of the monastic buildings at the beginning of the ninth century. He commenced thenew basilica in 829, and it was dedicated nine years later. The plan, which, from its inscription, is evidently a project for a rebuilding, may thereforebe attributed with considerable certainty to the first quarter of the ninth century. It has nopretensions to have been laid down to scale, as the proportions of the edifice, as shown thereon,do not tally, with any exactness, with the dimension given in the legends written upon it. I

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