Identifier: cathedralsabbeys01bonn (find matches)
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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been originally a Norman minster ofmoderate size, but of this Norman church nothing apparently remains, save thesouth transept and a fragment of the nave, its eastern limb having beenreplaced by a vast and magnificent choir of the thirteenth and fourteenthcentmies, on a scale far exceeding the dimensions of the earlier church. It iseasy to distinguish the portions of the original structure from the alterations andadditions of later times, the Norman builders having used throughout a greystone taken from the Roman wall, whereas all the later work is of red sand-stone, which came, it is believed, from quarries at the Rickerby Rocks. There is little known about the church beyond the general outline of itshistory, and in the absence of any fabric rolls there has been much doubt anddifference of opinion on many points connected with the architecture. According to the commonly received account, a Norman follower ofWilliam Rufus, named Walter, whom he had left at Carlisle to superintend tlie
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tn WH Oen o Q OCO t-H 00 Caulislb.) THE AUSTIN CANONS. 225 buildins: of the castle and the fortifications, founded witliin the city a college ofsecukir priests, but died before the church wliich he intended to build was com-pleted. Henry I. then took up the work, and in the year 1101 founded ahouse of regular canons of St. Augustine, and made his English confessor andchaplain, Athelwald, the first prior of the new society. At this time Carlisle was in the diocese of Durham, and it was not until

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