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
Crypt under stairs of Edgar Chapel, 40, 50, 53
under New Hall, 68
under nave, 41
Curator capellae (J. Bryant), 38
D
Deep Place, the, 144, 166
Distances, Mystery of the, 147
Di Vallera: Domenico, 146
Door (in east wall), 53 (see Portus)
Drain, the Great, 66
Drawings of Edgar Chapel, 67
of Loretto Chapel, 128-142
geometrical, on floor of St. Mary's Chapel, 147
Ducange, dict. of mediæval and low Latin quoted, 33 ref.
Dunstan, St.: bones of, 91
chapel in the west, 91;
chapel in the north, 68;
chapel at Edgarley, 106 ref.
E
Eawulf, or Eanwulf, Saxon Earl of Somerton (Yarl of Edgarley) 29,
105, 108
Edgar, King (Saint), 4, 44
Chapel of, 4, 8, 9, 28, etc., Plate II. (see Chapel)
for "Edmund," 56, 59
Edgarley, 106
Elizabeth, Queen, 4, 12, 66
Enigmas, Sacred, on floor of chapel, 148
Erasmus (friend of Bere), 122
Ell (measure), 43 (In the script still unpublished occurs an
authoritative statement that the builder's ell used by the monks was
just over 2 feet 4 inches. This makes it identical with the "pace" as
indicated in the statement of length on p. 68, where 733 feet = 311
"passus.")
Excavation of Bere's chapel, 53, 54;
completed, 55, 59
of apse, 62
plan, 64
F
Fannes (fan-vaulting) in Edgar Chapel, 38, 43, 57
in claustrum of the Loretto, 119, 145
in Quire, 59
Glo'ster, 38, 58
Fishponds, the Abbey, 147
Flat fan-vault in apse, 57
Fort or enclosure (Saxon), 63
Foundations of apse, 43, Fig. 6
of Bere's Chapel, 51, 59;
also Fig. 6 and Plate II.
mystery in the, 147
Four Ways, the, 147
Francesco de Padua (Vecchi), 145, 154
Freeman, Professor, quoted, 11
G
Galfrith, Frater, 87
Gallery over entrance to Edgar Chapel, 43
Gallery under great west window, 88
under the great east window of Quire, 57
under west window of Refectory, 96
Gargoyle, the, 99
Garth, upper and lower on north side of church, 144
Gate, to Chalice Hill, 63
King's, 95
Maudlin, 146-147
of Remembrance, 144
St. John's, 127-144
Water, 147
Gatehouse keeper's lodging (in dismantled Chapel of Dunstan), 91
Gematria of the Holy Name in the Greek, 151 ref.
Geometry, sacred, 147, 148, 150
Gifts, spiritual, 22-25 and flyleaf
Glastonbury as a centre of spiritual life, 20
Abbey (see Abbey)
Gloucester Cathedral cited, 27 ref.
Glo'ster fannes, in Edgar Chapel, 38
Gold and crimson roof in Edgar Chapel, 53, 77
Grave, a martyr's, 65
Graveyard, monks', 94, 96, 97
chapel in the, 97
Groin (see Vaulting)
Guest Hall, 35, 67, 90, 96
Gulielmus, Monachus, 33 (signature), 34, 38, 45, 58, 86
H
Hærewith the Dane, 94
Hall, the Great, 90, 91, 94, 96
built by Wolsey in Oxford, 101
Handrail, double, 43, 75
Hearne, Thomas (eighteenth-century antiquary), quoted, 12, 62
Herlewin, Abbot, 107 ref.
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