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76 REV. j. bentham's
when invented, or where first taken notice of:
some have imagined they might possibly have
taken their rise from those arcades we see in
the early Norman or Saxon buildings on walls,
where the wide semi-circular arches cross and
intersect each other, and form thereby, at
their intersection, exactly a narrow and sharp-
pointed arch. In the wall south of the choir
at St. Cross is a facing of such wide round
interlaced arches by way of ornament to a
flat vacant space; only so much of it as lies
between the legs of the two neighbouring
arches, where they cross each other, is pierced
through the fabric, and forms a little range oi
sharp-pointed windows : it is of king Stephen s
time; whether they were originally pierced I
cannot learn. But whatever gave occasion
to the invention, there are sufficient proofs
they were used here in the reign of Henry II.
The west end of the old Temple church, built
in that reign, and dedicated by Heraciius
patriarch of the church of the Holy Resur-
rection in Jerusalem, (as appears by the
inscription" lately over the door) is now
remaining; and has, I think, pointed and
round arches originally inserted; they are
intermixed; the great arches are pointed, the
windows above are round; the west door is a
b Stow's Survey of London, p. 746, edit. 17.54-
when invented, or where first taken notice of:
some have imagined they might possibly have
taken their rise from those arcades we see in
the early Norman or Saxon buildings on walls,
where the wide semi-circular arches cross and
intersect each other, and form thereby, at
their intersection, exactly a narrow and sharp-
pointed arch. In the wall south of the choir
at St. Cross is a facing of such wide round
interlaced arches by way of ornament to a
flat vacant space; only so much of it as lies
between the legs of the two neighbouring
arches, where they cross each other, is pierced
through the fabric, and forms a little range oi
sharp-pointed windows : it is of king Stephen s
time; whether they were originally pierced I
cannot learn. But whatever gave occasion
to the invention, there are sufficient proofs
they were used here in the reign of Henry II.
The west end of the old Temple church, built
in that reign, and dedicated by Heraciius
patriarch of the church of the Holy Resur-
rection in Jerusalem, (as appears by the
inscription" lately over the door) is now
remaining; and has, I think, pointed and
round arches originally inserted; they are
intermixed; the great arches are pointed, the
windows above are round; the west door is a
b Stow's Survey of London, p. 746, edit. 17.54-