The Minsters and Abbey Ruins of the United Kingdom
by MacKenzie Edward C Walcott (9780217804240)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Near St. John's Row is the Hussey tower, built by William Lord Hussey, who was beheaded at Lincoln in the reign of Henry VIII. St. Mary's Guildhall is of the 15th century. .?(Benedictine.) Brecon stands on the junction of the Hondy and Usk. The Priory of St. John, or Holy Cross, was founded 1095 by Bishop Bernard Newmarch, as a cell to Battle Abbey. The church consists of a nave of five bays, with aisles; a north porch; an aisleless transept; a choir with aisles, and Lady Cliapel. To the north transept, which formed the Chapel of the Men of Battle, was attached the large Chapel of Harvard; the south transept was the Norman Chapel, or the Chapel of the Bed-haired Men (the Normans). To the south of the choir are the Chapels of Lawrence and Hughes; the latter now roofless, but retaining its altar and piscina. The north nave aisle was the Chapel of the slioemakers and tailors; the south aisle was called the Chapel of the weavers and tuckers; the parcloses, with the insignia of those trades, have been destroyed within the present century. The tower, of two stories and embattled, 30 ft. square, contains a peal of six bells. The east window of the choir, remarkable for beauty and delicacy of finish, is a combination of five lancets: on the sides are lancets of great height, splayed deeply inwards, separated by three detached and banded Early English shafts, supporting the commencement of a groined roof, which was never completed; the present roof being of timber panelled, and with simple bosses. The Early English transepts are imposing; the eastern aisles communicated with the choir by beautiful arches now blocked up; the nave and aisles are of much later date. The clerestory has windows of two lancet-lights, with a circle in the head; the aisles have triplets set under an arc...

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