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The Architectural History of the Conventual Buildings of the Monastery of Christ Church in Canterbury
The Architectural History of the Conventual Buildings of the Monastery of Christ Church in Canterbury Author:Robert Willis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: Kent Archaeological Society Subjects: Architecture Architecture / General Architecture / Criticism Architecture / History / General Architecture / Individual Architect Architecture / Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings Architectu... more »re / Regional Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. IV. BUILDINGS BELONGING TO THE MONASTIC LIFE. 1. The Chapter-House. Beginning with the great Cloister, we find between the gable-wall of the north transept and the Chapterhouse a narrow passage or slype (Plate 2, 37), which, when Lanfranc's short east end of the church was standing, led, as usual, directly into the cemetery of the monks at the east of his apse. The Norman chapter-house was, as will appear below, rebuilt in later times, and the present one is manifestly shewn, by the mode of its junction with the small Norman cloister (O, P, Fig. 5, page 48, below) to project further eastward than the original one, which is represented in the Norman drawing by a mere gable-wall rising above the Cloister roof, and furnished with a row of four windows like those of the Dormitory, of which this gable-wall is the continuation. As no roof extending eastward from this gable is shewn, the building, were other evidence wanting, might from this alone be pronounced to have been a short one. The passage from the Dormitory to the church for the nocturnal services was probably provided by a door into the chapter-house, in the party-wall of the two buildings, at such a height that it would admit the monks into a gallery constructed in the thickness of the west gable-wall of the chapter-house over the doorway, and conduct them by an ...« less