A cursory disquisition on the conventual church of Tewkesbury, and its antiquities [by R. Knight]. |
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abbey abbot ABBOTS of TEWKESBURY adorned afterwards antiquity appearance arms ascribed beautiful belonged beneath benefactors Breadth building built buried buttresses canopy cathedrals chevron choir Church of Tewkesbury cieling cloister coffin conjecture corbels dimensions distinguished doubted Dutchess of Clarence Earl eastern end ecclesiastical architecture edifices elegant execution favor figure Fitz-Hamon Fortington founder Gilbert De Clare Gloucester gothic architecture Gough high altar honoured Hugh Despenser interment Isabel Keynsham later period Lord Lord Wenlock Margaret's chapel marriage ment monks monument mullions nave niche Norman observable occur oldest oratories original ornament perhaps pillars pinnacles pointed arch present prevailed probably rebuilt reign of Henry respect Richard rood-loft roof Saxon Scite seems shew side Sir Edward Despenser Sir Guido Brien soon specimens stone structure style suppose Tewkesbury church tion tomb tower transepts Trinity chapel vestry wall Wenlock western whole wholly William of Malmesbury workmanship
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Page 111 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Page 77 - Neither the writers nor the spectators saw the impropriety, nor paid a separate attention to the comick and the serious part of these motley scenes ; at least they were persuaded that the solemnity of the subject covered or excused all incongruities. They had no just idea of decorum, consequently but little sense of the ridiculous : what appears to us to be the highest burlesque, on them would have made no sort of impression.
Page 63 - For could the Arches be otherwise than pointed when the workman was to imitate that curve which branches of two opposite trees make by their intersection with one another ? Or could the Columns be otherwise than split into distinct shafts, when they were to represent the stems of a clump of trees growing close together?
Page 66 - At St. Edmundsbury, as John ap Rice informed, they found some of the coals that roasted St. Lawrence, the parings of St. Edmund's toes, St. Thomas Becket's penknife and boots, with as many pieces of the cross of our Saviour, as would make a large whole cross. They had also relics against rain, and for hindering weeds to spring. But to pursue this further were endless, the relics were so innumerable.
Page 5 - Cromwell ordered it to be carefully conveyed to Hampton Court, where it was placed in the great gallery, and one of Cromwell's favourite amusements was to be entertained with this instrument at leisure hours.
Page 63 - On the same principles they formed the spreading ramification of the stone-work in the windows, and the stained glass in the interstices ; the one to represent the branches, and the other the leaves, of an opening grove ; and both concurred to preserve that gloomy light which inspires religious reverence and dread.
Page 105 - There can be but one opinion on the praise which belongs to the exquisiteness of finishing by which the several parts of it are distinguished ; the entablature, wedged between two of the old pillars of the choir, and appearing to rest upon light columnar buttresses of singular beauty...
Page 20 - ... is in fome meafure applicable to moft of the churches begun by the Normans. — Their plan was indeed great and noble, and they laid out their whole defign at firft; fcarcely, we may imagine.^ with a view of ever living to fee it i " Diverfis fultum columnis, ac multiplicibus volutum hinc et inde arcubus...
Page 5 - VVarton, in his Observations on Spenser's Faerie Queen, informs us, that Oliver Cromwell, who was fond of music, and particularly of that of an organ, was greatly delighted with this, which then belonged to Magdalen College, in Oxford : when it was taken down, according to the puritanical humour of the times, as an abominable agent of superstition, he had it conveyed to Hampton Court, where it was placed in the great gallery for his amusement : it...
Page 29 - Winchester cathedral, which is remarkably thick and short, was left as the foundation fora projected spire; but this idea never entered into the plan of the architect. Nearly the whole inside of this tower was formerly seen from below ; and for that reason, its side arches or windows, of the first story at least, are artificially wrought and ornamented. With this sole effect in view, the builder saw no necessity to carry it higher. An instance of this visibly subsists at present in the inside of...