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worth by four columns. Those of the destroyed church ot
Reculvers stand now in a garden on the north of Canterbury
Cathedral. They are probably of Roman origin, clumsily
reworked in Saxon times. In St. Peter on the Wall at
Bradwell in Essex, also, there exists a very early Saxon
church with a semicircular apse and traces of three arches
dividing it from the nave. 1

But the best example of these Romano-Saxon churches
still existing is that of
Brixworth (680), which
is worth description, as
it is no doubt typical of
the class to which it
belongs (see p. 45). It
was originally a three-
aisled basilica, 100 feet
by 30. The aisles, how-
ever, have been de-
stroyed, so that the
original pier arches
dividing them from the
nave, which are built
of Roman brick, form
now part of the outer
walls, having been filled
up with later work.
About 60 feet from the
west end there is now
a wide fourteenth-cen-
tury chancel arch, but
originally there were
arches carried on piers the foundations of which remain.
Round the outside of the apse, about six feet below the
ground, approached now from inside the church, but perhaps
originally from the aisles, is an ambulatory, like those of
Canterbury and St. Peter's. It was originally vaulted, and
no doubt was intended to afford views through openings in
the apse wall, of the tomb of some saint placed under the
altar. There is, however, no trace remaining of anything of
the sort. In the outer wall of the ambulatory are loculi for


SOMPTING CHURCH TOWFR

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1 See note on Veils and Screens at end of chapter.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Gothic Architecture in England & France. Contributors: George Herbert West - author. Publisher: G. Bell & Sons. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1911. Page Number: 168.
    
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