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
INDEX AND SYNOPSIS
A
Abbey Church, plans, Figs. 1, 3, 12, 15
its total length, 12, 62, 65, 68, 69
Abbots (see Bere, Breynton, Whiting, etc.)
House, 10 ref. and Fig. 9
head (carved), 99 (Fig. 8)
Aisle to north transept (a cloister-alley), 125, 126
Ale, Johannes and the vat of, 89
Aller, John de, 66
Almoner, J. Bryan (lived over the King's Gate), 95
Altar, the High, 45, 56
screen, etc., 51, 56, 58, 77;
its back, with ancient image of B. V. M., 57
sepulchre under, 65
Altars, side, 43
Ambrosius the Cellarer, 66
Andrew, St., Chapel of, 51
Guild of, 100
arches (under tower), 122, 167, and Plate III.
Apse, semicircular, on Phelps' and Warner's plans, 11, 51, 52, 74
polygonal, 57, 61, 73, 74; Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 12; also Plate II.
Arch to Edgar Chapel (antechapel), 43
to end of Quire, 59
relieving, to the north-west angle of central tower, 121
Arches, like St. Andrew's Cross, under tower, 122, 167; Plate III.
Architect of Edgar Chapel (Richard de Tantonia), 67
of Loretto Chapel (Francesco Vecchi), 144, 145, 154
of St. Mark's, Padua (Domenico di Vallera Castiglione), 146
Arimathea, Joseph of, 33 ref.
Convent of (near Guest Hall), 68
Arthur, King: tomb of, 45, 56, 65
Automatism, discussion of, 22
Awfwold the Saxon, 63, 68
Azure glass (vitrea azurea): in script, 37, 72
discovered, 62, 72
B
Bailey, the Inner and Outer, 91 ref.
Bank, on site of the Loretto Chapel, north side of nave, 113, 144,
146, 160, 161, 162
Bards, writings, 87
Barrel vault, in south chantry, 57
Bell-tower, over north-east angle of cloister, burnt, repaired, and
pulled down owing to bad foundation, 88
Benedict (for Benignus), St.: Church of, 98, 100;
gargoyle of, 99 (Fig. 8)
Bere or Beere, Abbot Richard, 4, 35, 44, 45, 47, 54, 59, etc.
arms of, 98;
carved head of, 99 (Fig. 8)
embassy, 111;
notes on, 120
built St. Benignus' Church, 100
Edgar Chapel, 53
Loretto Chapel, 111, 120, 125, 126, 145, 146
claustrum in angle of transept, leading to Loretto, 119, 121
his signature in script, 53
his influence on those coming after, 47-48
Body of Christ (in symbolic lines on floor of St. Mary's), 147
Bones, the stirring of the dry, 21
of Abbot Whiting (collected and buried), 65
of St. Dunstan (held by Glastonbury), 91
Braineton, or Breynton, John of, Abbot, 48
geomancer to the Abbey, 147
Bryan, John, Almoner, 95
Bryant, Johannes, monk, curator of Edgar Chapel, sculptor, mason,
37, 38, 40, 41, 45, 47, 57, 59, 66
child of Nature, 85-97 _passim_
C
Camel, or Camillus, Thesiger--_i.e._, treasurer to Abbot Bere, 125,
127, 149, 151, 166
house of, 164
path used by, 154
tomb in St. John's, 127
Cancellarius (see Chancellor)
Cannon, MS. of John, 113, 114, 117 (Fig. 11), 124
Cannon, sketch of ruins by, 117
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