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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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e has given us a very precise descrip-tion of the spot which was the scene of this world-renowned tragedy. This small volume—The Architectural History ofCanterbury Cathedral, is, or ought to be, the text-book ofthe scientific archxologist. A man who has gone over thischurch with the professors work in his hand, has followedstep by step its rigorously logical procedure, and has madehimself thoroughly master of the problems involved, and ofthe solutions, not so much discovered by the investigation, asimposed by the facts themselves when observed with coldaccuracy, knows, if he be capable of knowing anything, whatis scientific method as applied in archaeological research.Such a study is as improving to the logical faculty as it is tothe antiquarian. It is an honour to belong to a universitywhich, in these days of dabbling and inaccuracy, hasproduced one man whose mind, at once iceily logical andardently practical, could give to an applied science all theprecision of a pure. PLATE XXVI.
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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 137 The primate had passed from the palace alongthe north walk of the cloister, and had entered thechurch by the door in the west wall of the northtransept. His intention was to hear vespers, whichthe monks were already commencing in the quire.He had ascended a few of the many steps inthe north quire-aisle, by which the higher levelwas gained, intending, no doubt, to pass along thisaisle and through the northern ostium presbiteriito his throne in the quire, when his four murderersforced their way into the church by the same doorthrough which he had himself just passed. Hear-ing their loud menaces, the primate paused in hisascent, and turning, descended again into the tran-sept and confronted them. Between the northquire-aisle and the apsidal chapel of the transept,dedicated in honour of St. Benedict, there inter-vened a blank piece of wall (still in existence),and in front of this wall that glorious companionof martyrs, and guest of the apos

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