The antiqvary's mvsevm / by Jacob Schnebbelie.

  • Schnebbelie, Jacob, 1760-1792.
Date:
1800
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Credit: The antiqvary's mvsevm / by Jacob Schnebbelie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    npwards, or rather fupport a fhort odtagonal tower, thirty feet fix inches in diameter, with four Windows, the mullioris of which, a few vears fince, were removed to give more light, and are now plain, oblong fqnares. The roof, rifing with an eafy afcent to a point, is covered with lead, as is the circular aile ; where, in digginga grave on the South fide in 1775 a number of human fkeletons were found, but not in the ufual diredion, Eaft and Weft. On the Weft fide, in the wall adjoining the ftair- cafe leading to the gallery, is a curious piece of very rude fculp- ture. See Piate II. Fig. 1. As the acute pointed arch was firft introduced into this king- dom by the Knights Templars, it is not improbable that this church is the earlieft fpecimen where the Saxon column and the pointed or Saracenic arch are united ; and that it muft have been built foon after, if not prior to the firft crufade; for Si- mon Saint Liz, a Norman, and fecond earl of Northampton, who died in 1127, on his return from a crufade to the Holy Land, gave this church to the convent of St. Andrew * ; and it was confirmed to them by Henry I. who added to it four acres of his demefne lands f. The original form of this church has been much altered by the addition of a chancel and two ailes, to which you afcend by three fteps; and at the Weft end is an embattled tower with a handfome fpire. In the tower, which is fupported by two mafly buttreftes, are fix bells, and the following lines painted on the- Eaft fide of the belfry. Here bells melodious move with art fublime. And various numbers beat in mood and time; Let clamour ceafe, the caufe of dire raifchance; In awful filence lead the miftic dance; So Mufic raifes her majellic ftrain, Whilft notes harmonious reach the diftant plain. * Reg. Priorat. S. Andr. fol. 14, a. 16, b. & Mon. Ang, vol, I. p. 680, 682*. •f Ibid, fol. 19. 6. 20. b. The