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church of st. cross.
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residence and support of thirteen poor men, and the daily relief of one hundred
°thers, the most indigent that could be found in Winchester, but of good characters,
who were to be entertained in a hall appropriated for the purpose, and thence called
Hundred-Mennes Hall. There was an endowment for a master, a steward?
four chaplains, thirteen clerks, and seven choristers, which Milner, with good
reason, supposes to have belonged to De Blois's original foundation, although
Bishop Lowth inclines to consider it as of a subsequent period. The size and extent
°f the Church, however, may be adduced as corroborative of Milner s opinion of
there having been a priestly establishment connected with this hospital from its
Sliest date.
The Church of St. Cross, as stated in a former section, is one of the earliest
hidings in which the incipient germs of the Pointed order began to be more
°penly developed than in any former reign; although still decidedly subordinate
*° the massive semicircular style. It is built in the general conventual form, that
°f a cross ; and consists of a nave, chancel, side aisles, and transept, with a low,
SclUare tower rising at the intersection. Its length is about one hundred and fifty
^eet; the length of the transept is one hundred and twenty feet. All the general
^0rms and proportions are shewn in the annexed prints. Plate No. 28 in list, which
^Presents an elevation of the east end, requires but little explanation : the windows
are mostly semicircular, and the buttresses comparatively of slight projection; in
gable of the roof are two small, circular windows, surrounded by a band, or
Moulding of the zigzag kind. Plate No. 29 is a section of the east end, as cut
about the middle of the chancel. In this, the Pointed form of the vaulting of the
j*lsles and chancel, the intersecting arches (concerning which so much has been said
y Milner49) of the end wall, and the semicircular windows over them, are distinctly
^elineated. a, is a plan of the eastern part, on a level with the roof of the aisles :
a> fragment of an ancient altar screen : b, present communion railing: c c, eastern
Endows of aisles : d d e, section of side windows : ffj, lancet-headed apertures in
^e side walls, forming a gallery of communication in the clerestory : g g, small
s^uare turrets, flanking the gable roof: //, vaulting, or ceiling of the chancel. In
late No. 30, are exterior and interior delineations of a Window in the northern
.j'Ute e»ch other; in short, the silence, the order, and the neatness which here reign, serve to recall the
to * monastei7 to those who have seen one, and will give no imperfect idea of such an establishment
0 those who have not had that advantage." Ibid.
V;de ante, chap. i. p. 65.
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residence and support of thirteen poor men, and the daily relief of one hundred
°thers, the most indigent that could be found in Winchester, but of good characters,
who were to be entertained in a hall appropriated for the purpose, and thence called
Hundred-Mennes Hall. There was an endowment for a master, a steward?
four chaplains, thirteen clerks, and seven choristers, which Milner, with good
reason, supposes to have belonged to De Blois's original foundation, although
Bishop Lowth inclines to consider it as of a subsequent period. The size and extent
°f the Church, however, may be adduced as corroborative of Milner s opinion of
there having been a priestly establishment connected with this hospital from its
Sliest date.
The Church of St. Cross, as stated in a former section, is one of the earliest
hidings in which the incipient germs of the Pointed order began to be more
°penly developed than in any former reign; although still decidedly subordinate
*° the massive semicircular style. It is built in the general conventual form, that
°f a cross ; and consists of a nave, chancel, side aisles, and transept, with a low,
SclUare tower rising at the intersection. Its length is about one hundred and fifty
^eet; the length of the transept is one hundred and twenty feet. All the general
^0rms and proportions are shewn in the annexed prints. Plate No. 28 in list, which
^Presents an elevation of the east end, requires but little explanation : the windows
are mostly semicircular, and the buttresses comparatively of slight projection; in
gable of the roof are two small, circular windows, surrounded by a band, or
Moulding of the zigzag kind. Plate No. 29 is a section of the east end, as cut
about the middle of the chancel. In this, the Pointed form of the vaulting of the
j*lsles and chancel, the intersecting arches (concerning which so much has been said
y Milner49) of the end wall, and the semicircular windows over them, are distinctly
^elineated. a, is a plan of the eastern part, on a level with the roof of the aisles :
a> fragment of an ancient altar screen : b, present communion railing: c c, eastern
Endows of aisles : d d e, section of side windows : ffj, lancet-headed apertures in
^e side walls, forming a gallery of communication in the clerestory : g g, small
s^uare turrets, flanking the gable roof: //, vaulting, or ceiling of the chancel. In
late No. 30, are exterior and interior delineations of a Window in the northern
.j'Ute e»ch other; in short, the silence, the order, and the neatness which here reign, serve to recall the
to * monastei7 to those who have seen one, and will give no imperfect idea of such an establishment
0 those who have not had that advantage." Ibid.
V;de ante, chap. i. p. 65.
2 b