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DR. MILNER VERSUS MR. HAGGITT.
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,in other countries frequented by the crusaders, it does not appear, as Bentham
an Grose remark, that a single building or ruin, except one church at Acre,'1'1 is to
6 f°und in this style, and very rarely such a thing as a mere pointed arch. It has
^etl supposed that this church was built by some European Christian, and Dr.
drier conceives he has found an account of its erection, and the name of the
^under, in tjje history 0f Matthew Paris.43 From his relation, it appears that one
iam, an English chaplain, during the siege of Acre, in 1190, made a vow, that
e entered into the city as conqueror, he would raise a chapel to St. Thomas,
. nch lle afterwards performed. " In fact," says Dr. Milner, " the architecture of
exactly corresponds with that of St. Hugh of Lincoln, Godfrey De Lucy, and
^er builders of that period, having long lancet windows, slender cluster columns,
corresponding ornaments,
th', n *^*S statement Mr. Haggitt observes, " Nothing can be more improbable than
Pretended discovery of Dr. Milner : in the first place, the remains are much too
nsiderable to answer to the term of capella, or to be the construction of capellanus
J ^dcm. Le BrUyl4j to whom Dr Milner refers, in describing this edifice, says,
th °^ f°rt superbe, et si je ne me trompe il a servi autrefois de temple.'—As to
Correspondence of the style with the works of De Lucy and Hugh of Lincoln,
a Clrcumstance which, in my mind, is sufficient of itself to explode Dr. Milner" s
otable supposition. Bishop De Lucy is universally considered as the introducer
0 tnis country of lancet arches, supported by slender cluster columns, with
■^y- s °f foliage; and the earliest of his works, the east end of the cathedral of
^e//ileSter' WaS n0t beoun tiU tlie year 1202- Tlie BishoP of" Lincoln, Hugh de
style^ ^°^OWed De Lucy at the distance of several years, and adopted the same
shou](jt ^nco'n >—^ is highly incredible, therefore, that a ' capellanus quidem'
to hav ^aVe can'ied into the east a species of architecture which cannot be proved
which ' eXlS^e<^ ln his own country till twelve years afterwards at the earliest, in
instead1^61 ^ ^ *S ^ more Pr°kable it might have been brought from the east,
build*- Carr'e<^ int0 it- There seems, however, to be little doubt that the
twelfth^ m C'UeSt*on tne wor^ °^ Europeans at all) was constructed not in the
' but during the thirteenth century, the Franks being in possession of St.
41 See
+3 ,« T punt of 11 in " Voyage to the Levant," by Cornelius Le Bruyn, Lond. 1752, folio, p. 164.
realise on Ecclesiastical Architecture," p. 57.
45
,in other countries frequented by the crusaders, it does not appear, as Bentham
an Grose remark, that a single building or ruin, except one church at Acre,'1'1 is to
6 f°und in this style, and very rarely such a thing as a mere pointed arch. It has
^etl supposed that this church was built by some European Christian, and Dr.
drier conceives he has found an account of its erection, and the name of the
^under, in tjje history 0f Matthew Paris.43 From his relation, it appears that one
iam, an English chaplain, during the siege of Acre, in 1190, made a vow, that
e entered into the city as conqueror, he would raise a chapel to St. Thomas,
. nch lle afterwards performed. " In fact," says Dr. Milner, " the architecture of
exactly corresponds with that of St. Hugh of Lincoln, Godfrey De Lucy, and
^er builders of that period, having long lancet windows, slender cluster columns,
corresponding ornaments,
th', n *^*S statement Mr. Haggitt observes, " Nothing can be more improbable than
Pretended discovery of Dr. Milner : in the first place, the remains are much too
nsiderable to answer to the term of capella, or to be the construction of capellanus
J ^dcm. Le BrUyl4j to whom Dr Milner refers, in describing this edifice, says,
th °^ f°rt superbe, et si je ne me trompe il a servi autrefois de temple.'—As to
Correspondence of the style with the works of De Lucy and Hugh of Lincoln,
a Clrcumstance which, in my mind, is sufficient of itself to explode Dr. Milner" s
otable supposition. Bishop De Lucy is universally considered as the introducer
0 tnis country of lancet arches, supported by slender cluster columns, with
■^y- s °f foliage; and the earliest of his works, the east end of the cathedral of
^e//ileSter' WaS n0t beoun tiU tlie year 1202- Tlie BishoP of" Lincoln, Hugh de
style^ ^°^OWed De Lucy at the distance of several years, and adopted the same
shou](jt ^nco'n >—^ is highly incredible, therefore, that a ' capellanus quidem'
to hav ^aVe can'ied into the east a species of architecture which cannot be proved
which ' eXlS^e<^ ln his own country till twelve years afterwards at the earliest, in
instead1^61 ^ ^ *S ^ more Pr°kable it might have been brought from the east,
build*- Carr'e<^ int0 it- There seems, however, to be little doubt that the
twelfth^ m C'UeSt*on tne wor^ °^ Europeans at all) was constructed not in the
' but during the thirteenth century, the Franks being in possession of St.
41 See
+3 ,« T punt of 11 in " Voyage to the Levant," by Cornelius Le Bruyn, Lond. 1752, folio, p. 164.
realise on Ecclesiastical Architecture," p. 57.