COMMITTEE FOR THE REPAIR OF THE TOMB OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
JOHN BRUCE, Esq., Treas. S.A., 5, Upper Gloucester Street, Dorset Square.
J. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq., V.P.S.A., Geys House, Maidenhead.
PETER CUNNINGHAM, Esq., F.S.A., Madeley Villas, Kensington.
WILLIAM RICHARD DRAKE, Esq., F.S.A., Honorary Treasurer, 46. Parliament Street.
THOMAS W. KING, Esq., F.S.A., York Herald, College of Arms, St. Paul's.
SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, K.H., British Museum.
JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, Esq., F.S.A., 25. Parliament St.
HENRY SHAW, Esq., F.S.A., 37. Southampton Row, Russell Square.
SAMUEL SHEPHERD, Esq., F.S.A., Marlborough Square, Chelsea.
WILLIAM J. THOMS, Esq., F.S.A., Honorary Secretary, 25. Holy-Well Street, Millbank, Westminster.
The Tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer in Westminster Abbey stands in need of repair. The portrait and the inscriptions have disappeared; the overhanging canopy has suffered damage; the table is chipped and broken; the base is fast mouldering into irretrievable decay.
Such an announcement is calculated to stir every heart that can respond to the claims of poetry, or feel grateful for the delight which it affords to every cultivated mind. It summons us, like the sound of a trumpet, "To the rescue!" It cannot be that the first and almost the greatest of English bards should ever be allowed to want a fitting memorial in our "Poet's Corner," or that the monument which was erected by the affectionate respect of Nicholas Brigham, nearly three centuries ago, should, in our time, be permitted to crumble into dust.
A sum under One Hundred Pounds will effect a perfect repair.
It is thought that there can be no difficulty in raising such a sum, and that multitudes of people in various conditions of life, and even in distant quarters of the globe, who venerate the name of Chaucer, and have derived instruction and delight from his works, will be anxious to contribute their mite to the good deed.
The Committee have therefore not thought it right to fix any limit to the subscription; they themselves, with the aid of several distinguished noblemen and gentlemen, have opened the list with a contribution from each of them of Five Shillings, but they will be ready to receive any amount, more or less, which those who value poetry and honour Chaucer may be kind enough to remit to them.
The design of the Committee is sanctioned by the approval of the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Braybrooke. Lord Londesborough, Lord Mahon, the Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn, and by the concurrence of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.
An account of the sums received and expended will be published when the work is completed.
Subscriptions are received by all the members of the Committee, and at the Union Bank, Pall Mall East. Post-office orders may be made payable to William Richard Drake, Esq., the Treasurer, 46. Parliament Street, at the Charing Cross Office.
In a few days will be published, in One handsome Volume 8vo., profusely Illustrated with Engravings by Jewitt,
Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England;
FROM
THE CONQUEST TO THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
WITH
NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS OF EXISTING REMAINS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS.
BY T. HUDSON TURNER.
The Table of Contents of this Volume will best explain its Object.
INTRODUCTION.
The Romans in England—Their Villas and Houses—Ordinary Plan of a Roman House—Method of Building—The Saxons—Their Style of Building; they probably occupied Roman Houses—A Saxon Hall—Houses of Winchester and London in the Saxon Period—Decoration of Buildings—Romanesque Style of Architecture introduced during the Saxon Period—Drawings in Saxon MSS., their Character and Value as Architectural Evidence—The Greek, or Byzantine School; its Influence on Saxon Art—Antiquity of Chimneys; None at Rome in the Fourteenth Century—Character of the Military Buildings of the Saxons—The Castles of Coningsburgh and Bamborough later than the Saxon Period—Arundel, the only Castle said to have been standing in the time of the Confessor—Norman Castles—Domestic Architecture of the Normans—Stone Quarries—Use of Plaster—Bricks and Tiles—Brickmaking, its Antiquity in England—Masons and other Workmen—Glazing—Iron Works in England—Architectural Designs of the Middle Ages, how made—Working Moulds of Masons, &c.
CHAPTER I.—TWELFTH CENTURY.
General Remarks—Imperfect Character of existing Remains of the Twelfth Century—Materials for the History of Domestic Architecture; their Nature—General Plan of Houses at this Date—Halls—Other Apartments of Ordinary Houses—Bedchamber, Kitchen, Larder, &c.—King's Houses at Clarendon and other Places—Hall, always the Chief Feature of a Norman House—Alexander Necham, his Description of a House—Plan of Norman Halls—Their Roofs—Situation of other Apartments relatively to the Hall—Kitchens—Cooking in the Open Air—Bayeux Tapestry—Remains of a Norman House at Appleton, Berks—Fences, Walls, &c.—Some Norman Houses built in the form of a Parallelogram, and of Two Stories—Boothby Pagnell, Lincolnshire—Christ Church, Hants—Jews' House at Lincoln—Moyses' Hall, Bury St. Edmund's—Staircases, Internal and External—External Norman Stair at Canterbury—Houses at Southampton—Building Materials—Use of Lead for Roofs—English Lead exported to France—Style of Norman Roofs—Metal Work; Hinges, Locks, Nail-heads, &c.—Gloucester celebrated for its Iron Manufactures—External Decoration of Buildings—Windows—Glazing—Fire-places—Kitchens open in the Roof—Hostelry of the Prior of Lewes—Internal Walls Plastered—Furniture of Houses, Tapestry, &c—Floors generally of Wood—Character London Houses in the Twelfth Century—Assize of 1189 regulating Buildings in London—Assize of the Year 1212 relating to the same Subject—- Majority of London Houses chiefly of Wood and Thatched—Wages of Workmen—Cookshops on Thames Side—Chimneys not mentioned in the London Assizes, &c.
CHAPTER II.—EXISTING REMAINS.
Oakham Castle, Rutlandshire—The King's House, Southampton—Minster, Isle of Thanet—Christ Church, Hants—Manor-house at Appleton—Sutton Courtney, Berks—St. Mary's Guild, and Jews' Houses, Lincoln—Staircase, Canterbury—Warnford, Hants—Fountain's Abbey—Priory, Dover—Moyses' Hall, Bury St. Edmund's—Hostelry of the Prior of Lewes, Southwark—Boothby Pagnell, Lincolnshire—Barnack, Northamptonshire—School of Pythagoras, Cambridge—Notes on Remains of Early Domestic Architecture in France.
CHAPTER III.—THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
General Remarks—Hall at Winchester—Reign of Henry III. remarkable for the Progress of Architecture—Condition of Norman Castles in the Thirteenth Century—Plan of Manor-houses at this Date—House built for Edward I. at Woolmer, Hants—Description of House at Toddington, by M. Paris—Meaning of term Palatium—Longthorpe, Stoke-Say Castle—West Deane, Sussex—Aydon Castle—Little Wenham Hall—Two Halls at Westminster, temp Henry III.—Temporary Buildings erected at Westminster for the Coronation of Edward I.—Private Hospitality in this Century—Kitchens—Wardrobes—Influence of Feudal Manners on Domestic Architecture—Building Materials—Wood extensively used—Manor-house of Timber engraved on a Personal Seal—Extensive Use of Plaster—Roofs of the Thirteenth Century—Windows—Glass and Glazing—Digression on the History of Glass-making in England—No Glass made in England until the Fifteenth Century—Wooden Lattices, Fenestrals, &c.—Fire-places and Chimneys—Mantels—Staircases, External and Internal—Internal Decoration of Houses—Wainscote—Polychrome—Artists of the Time of Henry III.; their Style—Their Names—Spurs, Screens, &c.—Tapestry not used in Private Dwellings in the Thirteenth Century. Flooring—Tiles—Baths Cameræ Privatæ—Conduits and Drains—Houses in Towns—Parisian Houses—Other Foreign Examples—Furniture—Carpets—General State of England in the Thirteenth Century—State of Towns—London and Winchester compared—Travelling—Hackneymen—Inns—State of Trade in England—Agriculture—Remarks on Horticulture.
CHAPTER IV.—THIRTEENTH CENTURY.—EXISTING REMAINS.
Aydon Castle, Northumberland—Godmersham, Kent—Little Wenham Hall, Suffolk—Longthorpe, near Peterborough—Charney Basset, Berks—Master's House, St. John's Hospital, Northampton—Stoke-Say Castle, Shropshire—Coggs, Oxfordshire—Cottesford, Oxfordshire—Parsonage House, West Tarring, Sussex—Archdeacon's House, Peterborough—Crowhurst, Sussex—Bishop's Palace, Wells—Woodcroft Castle, Northamptonshire—Old Rectory House, West Deane, Sussex—Acton Burnell, Shropshire—Somerton Castle, Lincolnshire—Old Soar, Kent—The King's Hall at Winchester—The Priory, Winchester—Stranger's Hall, Winchester—House at Oakham, known as Flore's House—Thame, Oxfordshire—Chipping-Norton, Oxfordshire—Middleton Cheney, Oxfordshire—Sutton Courtney, Berkshire.
CHAPTER V.—HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
Extracts from the Liberate Rolls of Henry III., 1229-1259, relating to the following places:—
Bridgenorth — Brigstock — Brill — Bristol — Canterbury — Clarendon — Cliff — Clipstone — Corfe Castle — Dover — Dublin — Evereswell — Feckenham — Freemantle — Geddington — Gillingham — Gloucester — Guildford — Havering — Hereford — Hertford — Kennington — Litchfield — London, (Tower) — Ely House — Ludgershall — Marlborough — Newcastle — Northampton — Nottingham — Oxford — Rochester — Sherbourn — Silverstone — Westminster — Winchester — Windsor — Woodstock.
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES OF FOREIGN EXAMPLES.
General Remarks — Treves — Laon — Ratisbon — Gondorf — Metz — Toulouse — Laon — Brée — Coucy — Carden — Tours — Angers — Fontevrault, (Kitchen) — Perigueux — St. Emilion — Mont St. Michel — Beauvais.
APPENDIX OF DOCUMENTS.
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