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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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s erected in the church of Sts. Cosmo and Damian by Pope Sergius I., in 687, asAnastasius relates. Cf. Lenoir, Archit. Monast., i. 191. This church was founded in the fourth century. Always venerable to Englishmen as the one church inRome dedicated in honour of the patron of England, it acquired for us a still closer interest when the greatestof english theologians, and the most profound of english thinkers, adopted it as the titular church of hisCardinalate. * There is a pulpitum, very similar in its general type to that of St. Clements, in the church of St. Peter atCorneto (figured in Lenoirs Archit. Monast., i., p. 191) which dates from the thirteenth century (1209). Some attribute the fittings of the choir of St. Clements to the commencement of the ninth century.Those of which we see the remains at St. Lawrence can hardly be earlier than the portion of the church inwhich they stood, which we know to have been added to the original basilica, in 1216, oy Pope Honorius III, PLATE XV.
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FIG. I. GROUND-PLAN OF THE CHURCH OF QUALB LOUZE, NEAR ALEPPO.FIG. II. ^: III. SECTION AND GROUND-PLAN OF THE CHURCH OF .MOUDJELEIA. THE: HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHVRCH ARCHITECTURE. $9 of the position which it occupied, identically the same with that presented to us in theseroman monuments, so that we have a clear proof (which is confirmed from other sources)that no radical innovations, like those which were effected in the course of the middle ages,had as yet taken place. But the arrangements of churches were being slowly, but very distinctly, influenced by thatdevelopement of the coenobite, or monastic, idea which resulted from the very completeness ofthe triumph of the Church. In the first ages of the faith, the christian society consisted exclusively of those upon whomthe rigorous principles of the new religion had taken such a hold, that they governed absolutelythe whole life. The first believers had all things in common. The church was, so to speak,a monastery, and long after it had

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