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Britton, John
The architectural antiquities of Great Britain: represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of ancient English edifices ; with historical and descriptive accounts of each (Band 4) — 1835

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INDEX.

Biidge, triangular, at Croyland, 76, 77.

Buildwas Abbey, date, founder, style of architecture, 42.
■—charters of endowment, 43, 44.—benefactions, 45,
46.—description of, 47-—nave, ornamented door-way,
arches, pillars, 43.—recesses, piscinae, 49.—crypt,
dimensions, 49.—grant and descent, 49.—References to
plates and description, 51.

Buttresses, in Beauchamp Chapel, of extraordinary pro-
jection, 15.—flying ditto, ib.—also to Louth Tower,
South-east view, 4.—to Boston tower, 90.

Buttresses, fiat, with columns at angle : Croyland, 69.
C

Caernarvon-Castle, situation of the town, 137.—castle
built by Edward I. 139-—birth of Edward, first Prince
of Wales of the English line, 139.—state of the walls,
ib.—towers, grand entrance, ib.—thickness of walls,
ib.—ancient records of the masons, and their charges,
140.—first governor of the castle, with his retinue, ib.

Campanile, or Bell Towers, in Croyland Church, 67.

Capitals, eleven various in Wenlock Chapter-house, 39.

Capitals foliated : Chapter-house, Oxford, 97-

Capitals to columns, 112.

Castle Rising Castle, ground and first story of the Keep-
tower described, 131,132.—extent of fortifications, 133.
—successive possessors, ib.—residence of Isabella,
dowager of Edward II. her burial, 134.

Castles, Ludlow, 103.—Stokesay, 113.—Conisborough,
I\g.—Middleham, 122.—Bolton, 125.—Thornbury, 126.
—Rochester, 129.—Castle Rising, 131.—Norwich, 135.
—Caernarvon, 137-—Kenilworth, 140.—Warwick, 149.

Chapel, Beauchamp, Warwick, founded by Richard
Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, 7-—memoirs of him,
7—10.—agreements with artificers, 11—15—descrip-
tion of the chapel, with reference to plates, 15.

Chapel, Skirlaw, situation, tower, carved screen, 99.—
vestry, endowments, 99--—memoirs of Bishop Skirlaw,
100.—will, 101.

Chapel, at Walsingham, peculiar beauty of, 77.

Chapel of Ludlow Castle, 110.

Chapter-house, in Wenlock Priory, 40.—Buildwas Abbey,
51.

Chapter-house at the Cathedral, Oxford, plate.—date,
style, columns, and sculpture, 97-

Chester, St. John's Church at, date, founder, 31.—en-
dowment of monastery, dimension of collegiate church,
semi-circular arch, 32, 33.—interior of present church,
33, 34.

Conisborough Castle, Keep-tower, peculiar style of archi-
tecture, dungeon, store room, 119.—wall, 120.

Churches, Louth, 1.—Barfreston, 20.—St. John, Chester,
31.—Wenlock Priory, 34.—Buildwas Abbey, 42.—
Lindisfarne, 52.— Croyland Abbey, 60.—Walsingham
Priory, 77-—Tynemouth Priory, 83.—Boston, 86.—
Eishops Cannings, 93.—St. Peter's, Oxford, 94.

Cloister in Wenlock Priory described, 40.

Crosby Hall, History and description cf that edifice, 154.

Croyland Abbey Church, founded, 60.—destroyed by the
Danes, rebuilt, materials, 61.—consumed, new church
built, ib.—second conflagration, and rebuilding, 62.—
site of Croyland, 63.—mode of laying the foundations
of the church, 65.—its form, compared with that of
Peterborough and other churches, 66.—besieged by
Cromwell, 68.—description of the ruins, materials, form
and dimensions of nave, 69.—gallery, peculiar columns,
screen, roof, 69—north aile now the parish church, its
dimensions, 70.—south aile, remains of, ib.—west
front, 71.—statues, 72.—remains of south aile, 73—74-
—conjectured dimensions of the original structure, 75.

Croyland Triangular Bridge, plate—its singular form,
style, date, situation, 76.-—ancient bridge on its site, ib.
quadrangular bridge in France on similar plan, 77.

Crypt in Buildwas Abbey, 49.-—in St. Peter's Church,
98.— in Canterbury, referred to, ib.

Cuthbert, Bishop, memoirs of, 55.

D.

Dates of Buildings.—Beachamp Chapel, 1442 to 1463,
10.—St. John's Church, Chester, 31.—Wenlock Priory,
1080, 35.—Buildwas Abbey, 1135, 42. — Croyland
Abbey, 1246, &c. 64.—Walsingham Priory, 1061, 77-
—Tynemouth Priory, 1110, 84.—Boston Steeple, 1309,
90. —Skirlaw Chapel, 1400, 98. — Kirkstall Abbey,
1153, 118.—Thornbury Castle, 1511, 126.—Roches-
ter Castle, 1088, 130. — Caernarvon Castle, 1282,
13S.—Kenilworth Castle, temp. Henry I. 141.—War-
wick Castle, 1080, 1394, &c. 149.—Crosby Hall,
temp. Edward IV. 155.—Glastonbury Abbey, temp.
Henry II. 160.

Door-way, at Barfreston Church, 25 ; PI. IV.—at Croy-
land Abbey, 71-

E.

Edward II. born at Caernarvon Castle, 139.

Edward III. anecdote of, 56.

Edward IV. confined at Middleham Castle, 123.

F.

Font at Walsingham, description of, 81.

G.

Gate-way, Micklegate Bar, York, plate and description
of, 102.
 
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