The Gate of Remembrance: The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at GlastonburyBond, Frederick Bligh
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The Gate of Remembrance: The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury
Bond, Frederick Bligh
Glastonbury Abbey -- Miscellanea; Parapsychology and archaeology -- England -- Glastonbury -- Case studies; Spirit writings
III. _b_, More parapets, this time partly of a Florentine pattern.
Whether these are meant for a more detailed study of the undulations
previously shown, or are some in a special position, does not yet
appear. The little "angels" seem to be connected with them.
III. _c_, Probably meant for one of the heads of the side-windows in
the Chapel. There is clearly a semicircle at head, and there appears
some sort of filling like open scroll-work. No English precedent of
this date is known to the writer.
[Illustration: PLAN F.]
DESCRIPTION OF PLAN G.
III. _d_, Another sketch of the "Cava," with the description of the
treatment of its recess: "Golden stars on azure, at the back of the
Virgin's Hollow"; and it proceeds: "Ad orientem, in cava Virginis
Mari(a)e Lorettae quod ... ad ecclesiam ... via claustra ad eccl^m
... ad orientem ... ad ecclesiam" (To the east, a covered way, or
cloister, leading to the church).
III. _e_, Again a plan of the east end of the Chapel, with the door
marked "portus," and a line going east.
III. _f_, The "via claustra" shown from the Chapel to the "ecclesia."
[Illustration: PLAN G.]
DESCRIPTION OF PLAN H.
IV. _a_, "Chapel is forty (in) feet by twenty." Then follows an
elevation of one side showing the round heads of the windows connected
by a string-course, and the writing "forty feet, four parts."
IV. _b_, Sketch of a rounded vault, its groin carved along the whole
length. Described thus: "Volt of fruit and flowers painted very
cunningly. Ye ribs of volts ycarven so."
IV. _c_, Small sketch of one of the sitting lions at the angle of the
Chapel, with one crenelle of the parapet adjoining. Described thus:
"Ye Leones cornerwise, and thre(e) between. The partitions were 10
feet, forty in length and twenty wide," with round vaults: ribs carven
with fruit and many colours.
[Illustration: PLAN H.]
[Illustration: PLAN I.
IV. _d_, Another sketch of a sitting lion.]
REVIEW.
It was with a sense of astonishment that, after so great a lapse of
time, this interesting communication, so voluminous in detail, and,
so apparently explanatory of doubts and difficulties in connection
with the obscure problem of the Loretto Chapel, should have presented
itself unsought, unexpected, and inclusive of strange new elements
which suggested the existence at Glastonbury in Bere's day of an
architectural model which would be unique for the period in these
islands, and probably without parallel in Northern Europe.
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