A CRITICAL DISSERTATION ON PROFESSOR WILLIS'S "ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL." Lanfranco. Archiepo. Hui'. Ecclie. fundatore. BY CHARLES SANDYS. 3. "My sole object is the investigation and discovery of truth, and that object I shall LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 4, OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO SQUARE. MDCCCXLVI CONTENTS. PAGE 1 6 7 The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral, from the earliest period to the year 1130: translated from the works of Edmer A New Translation suggested of "Singuli sub singulis locellis ligneis "Priorem partem Ecclesiæ," mistranslated by the learned Professor, and "Ipsum oratorium," mistranslated, and corrected Important bearing of these inaccurate Translations upon the Professor's CHAP. II. On the Plan and Arrangement of the "Saxon" Cathedral. (In The Saxon Church of St. John the Baptist, founded by Cuthbert, did not On the Professor's Plan of the Romano-British Church, and on his mis- Some unfounded conjectures of the learned Professor censured CHAP. III. Here beginneth Gervase, his History of the Burning and Repair Summary of the Works in each Year The Accident which disabled William of Sens from continuing William the Englishman appointed Architect Entry into the New Choir on Easter Eve, 19th April, 1180 7. Remaining operations of the sixth Year Trinity Chapel levelled to the ground 8 Id. July, 1180 St. Odo and St. Wilfrid translated, and deposited under the Shrines of St. Dunstan and St. Elfege Lanfranc translated from the Trinity Chapel (the place of his 20 SECT. 8. "Explanations," containing Gervase's interesting account of and the former Norman Church 9. Operations of the 7th, 8th, and 10th years. No work done in the ninth year for want of funds The appropriation to Ernulf of the works of Lanfranc noticed Remarks Critical and Historical on the foregoing History SECT. 1. Eleventh to Sixteenth Century Various propositions in the Professor's work censured The like (Latin and English) on the Works of Lanfranc . 35-39 Character of Lanfranc and of his times 30-33 30 30 34 45 46-47 His Works at Canterbury investigated-showing that the present Norman Remains in the Cathedral are Lanfranc's. 41-44 The Works of William of Sens and William the Englishman of Priors Henry de Estria, and Oxinden of Archbishop Sudbury and his Successors The Dark Ages, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century; Henry VII; the Reformation; Henry VIII; Inigo Jones; Sir Chris- topher Wren; Addison; Somner; Battely; Gostling . 48-50 SECT. 3. Dean Percy and the Restoration of Canterbury Cathedral Mr. Austin and William the Englishman compared St. Paul's, London, and Canterbury Cathedral compared List of the Burial Places of the Archbishops of Canterbury, from Cuthbert to Cardinal Pole, A.D. 758 to 1558. 60 A CRITICAL DISSERTATION. PART THE FIRST. THE learned and reverend Professor informs us in his preface (p. i) that "The Translation of Gervase, which it was the principal object of that History to illustrate, was read by him with a few necessary omissions, at the evening meeting of the architectural section of the British Archæological Association on the 11th of September, 1844; and that on the following morning he had the honour of explaining to a numerous audience in the cathedral itself, the application of that translation to the building." To those who, like ourselves, had the good fortune to be present at that meeting, it may be unnecessary to dwell upon the intense interest which it excited, and the consummate ability with which the learned Professor treated that part of his arduous undertaking. That useful and interesting work now appears in an enlarged and more extended form, and illustrated with numerous engravings, woodcuts, plans, sections, and elevations. CHAPTER I, (pp. 1-19,) embraces "The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral from the earliest period to the year. 1130, translated from the works of Edmer the Singer and others." In this chapter the learned Professor proposes "to relate the history of the building, and the events which bore upon its |