The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul: An Account of the Old And New Buildings, With a Short ...
The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul: An Account of the Old And New Buildings, With a Short ...
Arthur Dimock
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The fire of 1 1 36 did great damage, and restoration on a considerable scale was effected. Mr. E. A. Freeman, by a happy coincidence, THE NAVE OF OLD ST. PAULS. After Hollar. touches on restorations at Wells of this time, and contrasts our two dates.' After the fire of 1 136 the restoration would be in a style "somewhat less massive, somewhat more highly en- ' " Wells," !>. 69. His exact dates are shortly after 1088 aiul 1136. 42 ST. PAUUS CATHEDRAL. riched." I have already pointed out Freeman'...s statement that the custom towards the middle of the eleventh century was to throw a coating of the more refined Romanesque of the day over earlier Norman work, and this agrees with the statements both of Wren and Pepys. We may, then, assume that while the former ground-plan and general outline remained the same, after 1136 the pillars were encased and more elaborate mouldings added. By another statement of the same authority ^ it would seem that " the vaulting shafts run up from the ground " belong to the second restoration, when the vaulting itself was completed, and the date of this is indicated in Bishop Basset's letter of 1255.
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