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Notitiæ Templariæ, No. 5.
Order , who were perhaps placed in a similar monumental position in tbe church of the Temple at Jerusalem . It is doubted by some if all these figures are Templars , as sepulture in the church was to be purchased by the great or rich . Some certainl y are not cross-legged ; others are ivithout mantles ; all , however , have spurs , and wear head-pieces ivithout crests . But we must leave it to others to illustiate this . Gough , in bis great monumental workives a history of part of these remains
, g , which he identifies with several distinguished noblemen of the thirteenth century , but admits that the five figures in the north group have never been ascertained . Camden and Weever consider several of these latter to represent the Mareschals of England , presuming them to belong to the thirteenth century . The round or circular form seems to have been a favourite one with the Templars , as several of their churches throughout the country are of this
shape , which has been accounted for by the church of the Temple at Jerusalem being of the circular kind . At the last siege of Acre it is related that the Order took refuge in the tower of the temple there , which probably was that of the church , and was furnished with battlements , to serve as well for a military as a religious purpose . This supposition is confirmed by the architecture of the round tower or church of St . Sepulchre at Cambrid built bthe Templarsand
ge , y , which has in some sort a castellated character . " In examining this building , " says Mr . Britton , " we are struck with its ponderous and durable appearance , as if it was intended for a castellated edifice . " The masonry of the ancient walls ( he observes ) , and also of the pillars and arches , is such as to evince great skill in the fraternity who raised
it , the stones being all squared and chiselled with the most mathematical accuracy to fit their respective places . No doubt a convent and other out-houses once existed in the vicinity of this ancient seat of the Templars at Cambridge . Another erection , somewhat similar to the preceding , appears to have been that at Northampton . " The church of the Holy Sepulchre , " remarks Pennant , in his Tour from Chester to London , " was supposed to have been built bthe Knihts
y gTemplars on the model of that at Jerusalem . " It was probably founded towards the end of the twelfth or beginning of tbe thirteenth century , at which period the pointed arch practice began to prevail in budding . A preceptory of the Order of the Temple existed at Swingfield , near Dover , where its remains are still to be seen . Camden mentions a lace in Warwickshirenamed
Balshallforp , , merly a preceptory of the Templars , and which was bestowed upon them by Roger de Mowbray , whose munificence to the Order was such that by the unanimous consent of the Chapter they decreed that he should have the power of pardoning any Brother who had transgressed the rules of the society , provided that tbe latter came and acknowledged his fault or crime before ( heir benefactor . According to the feudal system and practicethe tenants of the Templars at this lace could not
, p marry their daughters ivithout the permission of the Order , as appears by an account taken in the thirty-first year of Henry II . A circular temple church seems also to have existed at a place called Temple Bruer in Lincolnshire , where Camden mentions there are the ruins of a demolished church , " not unlike those of the new Temple at London . " The Order had likewise lands in the district of Lindsey , in the same county .
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Notitiæ Templariæ, No. 5.
Order , who were perhaps placed in a similar monumental position in tbe church of the Temple at Jerusalem . It is doubted by some if all these figures are Templars , as sepulture in the church was to be purchased by the great or rich . Some certainl y are not cross-legged ; others are ivithout mantles ; all , however , have spurs , and wear head-pieces ivithout crests . But we must leave it to others to illustiate this . Gough , in bis great monumental workives a history of part of these remains
, g , which he identifies with several distinguished noblemen of the thirteenth century , but admits that the five figures in the north group have never been ascertained . Camden and Weever consider several of these latter to represent the Mareschals of England , presuming them to belong to the thirteenth century . The round or circular form seems to have been a favourite one with the Templars , as several of their churches throughout the country are of this
shape , which has been accounted for by the church of the Temple at Jerusalem being of the circular kind . At the last siege of Acre it is related that the Order took refuge in the tower of the temple there , which probably was that of the church , and was furnished with battlements , to serve as well for a military as a religious purpose . This supposition is confirmed by the architecture of the round tower or church of St . Sepulchre at Cambrid built bthe Templarsand
ge , y , which has in some sort a castellated character . " In examining this building , " says Mr . Britton , " we are struck with its ponderous and durable appearance , as if it was intended for a castellated edifice . " The masonry of the ancient walls ( he observes ) , and also of the pillars and arches , is such as to evince great skill in the fraternity who raised
it , the stones being all squared and chiselled with the most mathematical accuracy to fit their respective places . No doubt a convent and other out-houses once existed in the vicinity of this ancient seat of the Templars at Cambridge . Another erection , somewhat similar to the preceding , appears to have been that at Northampton . " The church of the Holy Sepulchre , " remarks Pennant , in his Tour from Chester to London , " was supposed to have been built bthe Knihts
y gTemplars on the model of that at Jerusalem . " It was probably founded towards the end of the twelfth or beginning of tbe thirteenth century , at which period the pointed arch practice began to prevail in budding . A preceptory of the Order of the Temple existed at Swingfield , near Dover , where its remains are still to be seen . Camden mentions a lace in Warwickshirenamed
Balshallforp , , merly a preceptory of the Templars , and which was bestowed upon them by Roger de Mowbray , whose munificence to the Order was such that by the unanimous consent of the Chapter they decreed that he should have the power of pardoning any Brother who had transgressed the rules of the society , provided that tbe latter came and acknowledged his fault or crime before ( heir benefactor . According to the feudal system and practicethe tenants of the Templars at this lace could not
, p marry their daughters ivithout the permission of the Order , as appears by an account taken in the thirty-first year of Henry II . A circular temple church seems also to have existed at a place called Temple Bruer in Lincolnshire , where Camden mentions there are the ruins of a demolished church , " not unlike those of the new Temple at London . " The Order had likewise lands in the district of Lindsey , in the same county .