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Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ar termination of the present cathedral, which now bears thename of Beckets Crown, may be a souvenir of the tomb-house of Cuthbert. Inthe days of Odo, the latter half of the tenth century, a new roof was needed, andat that time the walls were raised, probably by adding a clerestory. But an eviltime was coming in the days of Alphege. The monastery and city were stormedand sacked, the church was plundered and set on fire, the monks were slaughtered,the archbishop was dragged away a prisoner to be insulted and at last murderedby the conquerors. Twelve years later, with a Dane upon the throne, quietertmies retm-ned, and the remains of the archbishop were translated with great pompto a resting-place among his predecessors, Canute himself giving his crown of goldas an atonement, to be hung up at the head of the great cross in the nave. A worse calamity, however, occurred. In one of Englands darkest years, thatwhich followed the death of Harold at Senlac, a fire broke out in Canterbury city,
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THE BKLL llAURY TOWER, CANTERUURY. -r CAMERBUKY.) TUE BUILDING OF THE CHURCH. 3 and the flames laid hold on the monastery; almost all its buildings, the mother churchitself, and the tomb-house of the archbishops, with all their store of relics, perishedin the flames. Stigand the Englishman was still archbishop, but three years after-wards he was deposed, and Lanfranc the Norman was appointed to the vacant see.Monastery and church alike lay in ruins, but the new prelate quickly addressedhimself to the task of reconstruction. One hundred and fifty Benedictine monkswere established in the former, and in seven years the church was rebuilt. In this work, as we are in effect told, all traces of the Saxon church were sweptaway—he carried out in stone and wood a policy thoroughly Norman. Thus withthe first archbishop of that race the chronicle of the present fabric begins. Thenave and western towers rest probably on the foundations of Lanfrancs building;portions of his walls yet remain in t

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