The Historical Growth of the English Parish ChurchThompson, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
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The Historical Growth of the English Parish Church
Thompson, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
Church architecture -- England
§ 23. The tendency of the chantry chapels at Cirencester is to group
themselves at the east end of the church, the Trinity chapel forming
an excrescence at the end of the north aisle which is nearest the
chancel. At Chesterfield the high altar, below the great east window,
was flanked by the guild chapel of our Lady on the south, and the
chapel of St Katharine on the north. The guild chapel of the Holy
Cross was east of the north transept: an apsidal chapel east of the
south transept contained the altar of St George; while there were
two chantry altars against the screens in the arches of the south
transept. The four chantry chapels added to Scarborough church towards
the end of the fourteenth century were built in a row at right angles
to the south aisle, each with its own separate gable and pointed barrel
vault. The chapel of St Nicholas had been added to the church somewhat
earlier, by the building of an extra north aisle; a chantry was founded
at St Nicholas' altar in 1390. We also meet at Scarborough, Great
Yarmouth, and other places, with charnel chapels. That at Scarborough,
dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, was probably a separate building in the
graveyard. Such external chapels were often built, although few remain
to-day. Henry of Newark, archbishop of York 1298-9, founded about 1292,
while he was dean of York, a chapel of St Katharine and St Martha in
the churchyard of Newark. Some twenty years later, when the enlargement
of the aisles of Newark church was contemplated, archbishop Grenefeld
licensed the destruction of the chapel. Its materials were used for the
rebuilding of the south aisle, and the chantry was probably transferred
to an altar in the new building. There was probably a charnel chapel at
Grantham, to the south-west of the church.
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