Identifier: greaterabbeysofe01gasq (find matches)
Title: The greater abbeys of England
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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man, the rest date from 1214-35. Onthe south side the five western bays are of the same date,the rest was begun by Abbot Eversdon in decorated workabout 1323 and raised by 1326 to the triforium. Thisbuilding was necessitated by the collapse of a great por-tion of the church, and the fall of many of the pillarsduring the singing of Mass in the first-named year. Itsreparation was continued by Abbot Mentmore, the suc-cessor of Richard de Wallingford, known to posterityfor the construction of a celebrated astronomical clock,representations of which are to be found in some of theSt. Albans books in the British Museum. Michael de Mentmore constructed the ceiling of thesouth aisle of the church, which had been newly built,together with the cloister. He also furnished the con-vent with books and vestments. In 1341 he was calledupon to baptize Edmund, the fifth son of King EdwardIII. He died in 1349, the year of the great pestilence,or Black Death as it is now called; and with him at that (20)
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ST. ALBANS calamitous time died the prior, sub-prior and forty-sevenof the brethren of St. Albans. The original rood screen erected in 1360 has on eitherside of the rood-altar a door which opened into a choirentry, a passage being left between the stalls and thescreen. The choir projected three bays into the nave,and the presbytery had three bays in length. The greatreredos, built at a cost of 1,100 marks by Abbot Walling-ford (1476-94), has two doors opening into the feretoryfor processional and other liturgical purposes. Thestory goes that the screen was suggested by that of Win-chester, returning from the dedication of which the St.Albans monks with their abbot determined to erect onesomewhat similar. The staircase to the monks dor-mitor) is in the southwest angle of the southwest tran-sept; at the level of the cloister-roof it communicatedwith a passage leading to a watching-loft, still remain-ing in the west wall. It was opposite to this that oncestood the great image of the Bles

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