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st. katharine’s church, london.
Plate III. The three stalls here represented are attached to the south
side of the chancel, near to the high altar: they were intended for the
priest, with his attendants, the deacon and subdeacon, to sit in whilst certain
parts of the mass were sung by the choir. Such stalls have been often
described as confessionals by persons ill-acquainted with ecclesiastical antiquity;
but their real use is well known, and admits of no doubt. These stalls in St.
Mary’s Church are designed with elegance and delicacy. The mouldings are
remarkably simple, but sufficiently enriched by ornaments of foliage to produce
a very good effect.
PLATE, No. 33.
ST. KATHARINE’S CHURCH, TOWER HILL, LONDON.
This church was attached to an hospital originally founded by Matilda of
Boulogne, wife of King Stephen, in the year 1148. In 1273, it was re-
founded by Alianora, or Eleanor, queen of Henry III., and was improved
by the benefactions of Philippa, the consort of Edward III. The queens
of England were always patronesses of this establishment, which escaped
the destruction that overwhelmed nearly all such foundations at the change
of religion, and it is still in existence. The church consisted of a nave and
aisles, measuring 69 feet in length, by 60 in breadth; a choir, without aisles,
63 feet long, and 32 broad; and a small modern tower attached to the
ancient west front. The choir was erected in the reign of Edward III.,
about the middle of the fourteenth century, and the nave and aisles not long
afterwards. The original architecture of this church had been highly adorned,
but had latterly become much obscured and vitiated by decay and a succession
of modern reparations. The whole pile has been swept away, together with
the adjoining cemetery, within the last five years, to make room for the great
commercial docks, to which the name of the patroness of the hospital, St.
Katharine, has been strangely applied.*
The subject of the accompanying Plate was taken from one of the stalls>
* The establishment has been removed into the Regent’s Park, where a new chapel, with
a house for the master, and two ranges of apartments for the habitation of the brethren and
sisters, have been erected, from the designs of Ambrose Poynter, Esq., architect.
st. katharine’s church, london.
Plate III. The three stalls here represented are attached to the south
side of the chancel, near to the high altar: they were intended for the
priest, with his attendants, the deacon and subdeacon, to sit in whilst certain
parts of the mass were sung by the choir. Such stalls have been often
described as confessionals by persons ill-acquainted with ecclesiastical antiquity;
but their real use is well known, and admits of no doubt. These stalls in St.
Mary’s Church are designed with elegance and delicacy. The mouldings are
remarkably simple, but sufficiently enriched by ornaments of foliage to produce
a very good effect.
PLATE, No. 33.
ST. KATHARINE’S CHURCH, TOWER HILL, LONDON.
This church was attached to an hospital originally founded by Matilda of
Boulogne, wife of King Stephen, in the year 1148. In 1273, it was re-
founded by Alianora, or Eleanor, queen of Henry III., and was improved
by the benefactions of Philippa, the consort of Edward III. The queens
of England were always patronesses of this establishment, which escaped
the destruction that overwhelmed nearly all such foundations at the change
of religion, and it is still in existence. The church consisted of a nave and
aisles, measuring 69 feet in length, by 60 in breadth; a choir, without aisles,
63 feet long, and 32 broad; and a small modern tower attached to the
ancient west front. The choir was erected in the reign of Edward III.,
about the middle of the fourteenth century, and the nave and aisles not long
afterwards. The original architecture of this church had been highly adorned,
but had latterly become much obscured and vitiated by decay and a succession
of modern reparations. The whole pile has been swept away, together with
the adjoining cemetery, within the last five years, to make room for the great
commercial docks, to which the name of the patroness of the hospital, St.
Katharine, has been strangely applied.*
The subject of the accompanying Plate was taken from one of the stalls>
* The establishment has been removed into the Regent’s Park, where a new chapel, with
a house for the master, and two ranges of apartments for the habitation of the brethren and
sisters, have been erected, from the designs of Ambrose Poynter, Esq., architect.