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The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
reduced the churches and monasteries to ashes by the sword and fire and Christianity had almost perished ; scarcely any churches—and those formed of branches and thatch—and nowhere any monasteries had been re-built for two hundred years , " etc . This refers specially
to Northumbria ; but much change for the better was made by three Ijoor monks from Mercia , Aldwin , Ealfwy , and Rinfrid . They employed themselves in restoring the holy places , rebuilt the churches , and even founded new ones . * In 1074 , the Chapter Housef at Durham is used as the burial
place of a bishop . On the new Church X of Durham being commenced on the 11 th August , 1093 , by Bishop William , it is stated that " Malcolm , King of Scots , and Prior Turgot , laid the first stones of the foundation ;" and in 1121 § it is recorded that " Ralph , Bishop of Durham ,
began a wall from the northern part of the choir of the church and carried it on to the keep of the castle ; he then began also the Castle * of Norham , on the banks of the Tweed . " "Not only houses , but even towers of stone , " || are said to have been thrown down by wind on Christmas Eve , 1122 ; and in the same year orders are given for Carlisle to be fortified with " a castle and towers . "
Besides the Chronicle from which the above extracts have been culled , Simeon among other works wrote a history of the Church of St . Cuthbert , of Durham , from which the following are taken : — In 635 , ^ f after Aidan had received an episcopal see in the Island of Lindisfarne , he " commenced to erect a dwelling for the monks by
whom he had been accompanied . " He was succeeded byFinan ** who built a church there "in keeping with his episcopal residence . " Eadbert , ff at a later time , " stripped off its covering of thatch and carefully overlaid the whole of it , not only the roof , but even the walls themselves , with sheets of lead . "
Bishop EadfridJJ " caused a stone cross of curious workmanship to be made , and directed that his own name should be engraven upon it , as a memorial of himself . " The top of this cross was at a later time broken off by the Pagans , "but it was afterwards reunited to the body of the cross by being run together with lead . " Simeon
tells us that it was to be seen in his day standing erect in the cemetery of the Church of Durham . In 735 Beda died , and in recording the event it is stated that " a
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
reduced the churches and monasteries to ashes by the sword and fire and Christianity had almost perished ; scarcely any churches—and those formed of branches and thatch—and nowhere any monasteries had been re-built for two hundred years , " etc . This refers specially
to Northumbria ; but much change for the better was made by three Ijoor monks from Mercia , Aldwin , Ealfwy , and Rinfrid . They employed themselves in restoring the holy places , rebuilt the churches , and even founded new ones . * In 1074 , the Chapter Housef at Durham is used as the burial
place of a bishop . On the new Church X of Durham being commenced on the 11 th August , 1093 , by Bishop William , it is stated that " Malcolm , King of Scots , and Prior Turgot , laid the first stones of the foundation ;" and in 1121 § it is recorded that " Ralph , Bishop of Durham ,
began a wall from the northern part of the choir of the church and carried it on to the keep of the castle ; he then began also the Castle * of Norham , on the banks of the Tweed . " "Not only houses , but even towers of stone , " || are said to have been thrown down by wind on Christmas Eve , 1122 ; and in the same year orders are given for Carlisle to be fortified with " a castle and towers . "
Besides the Chronicle from which the above extracts have been culled , Simeon among other works wrote a history of the Church of St . Cuthbert , of Durham , from which the following are taken : — In 635 , ^ f after Aidan had received an episcopal see in the Island of Lindisfarne , he " commenced to erect a dwelling for the monks by
whom he had been accompanied . " He was succeeded byFinan ** who built a church there "in keeping with his episcopal residence . " Eadbert , ff at a later time , " stripped off its covering of thatch and carefully overlaid the whole of it , not only the roof , but even the walls themselves , with sheets of lead . "
Bishop EadfridJJ " caused a stone cross of curious workmanship to be made , and directed that his own name should be engraven upon it , as a memorial of himself . " The top of this cross was at a later time broken off by the Pagans , "but it was afterwards reunited to the body of the cross by being run together with lead . " Simeon
tells us that it was to be seen in his day standing erect in the cemetery of the Church of Durham . In 735 Beda died , and in recording the event it is stated that " a