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The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
little mansion of stone , " in which he was accustomed to sit and reflect , etc ., was exhibited " even to the present day . " * „ The Danes and Frisians , in the year 867 , f having taken York , spread over the whole country , destroying churches and monasteries far and wide with fire-and sword , " leaving nothing remaining save
the bare unroofed walls ; " sometimes those were utterly destroyed . Mr . Stephenson , in a note , J suggests that the name St . Mary-le-Bow is to be attributed to the fact that when in the year 995 the body of St . Cuthbert was carried by the monks to Duimam , which as Simeon tells us was " the spot which had been pointed out to them
by heaven , " they " made a little church of boughs of trees with all speed , therein they placed the shrine for a time . " " From that smaller church" the body " was removed § into another , which was called White
Church , " where it remained during the three years required for the building of the larger one . " At a later period , Bishop Aldhun erected a tolerably large church of stone" at Durham . "The entire population of the district , which extends from the river Coquet to the Tees , readily and willingly
Tendered assistance as well to this work [ the clearing away the forest ] as to the erection of the church at a later period ; nor did they discontinue their labours until the whole was completed . " ( j In the the third year after its foundation the church was dedicated b y Bishop Aldhun , on the 4 th September , 998 , ^ f but we are told * * that at
the death of the Bishop " of the church , the building of which he had commenced , he left behind him nothing more than the western tower , and that in an unfinished condition . "
Aegelrick , when Bishop of Durham , about 1045 f f " thought fit to pull down the wooden church at Cunecaceastre , ( which we now corruptly call Ceastre ) , and to build there another of stone . " Having resigned the Bishopric about the year 1057 , he returned to his own monastery and expended the money he had removed from the church
in "constructing through the fenny regions roads of stone and wood . " ++ In 1072 , Walcher was chosen Bishop , and on some monks coming from Eovesham to Northumbria he gave them the monastery at Jarrow , "the unroofed walls of which were alone standing . . . . Upon those walls they reared a covering formed of unhewn timbers ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
little mansion of stone , " in which he was accustomed to sit and reflect , etc ., was exhibited " even to the present day . " * „ The Danes and Frisians , in the year 867 , f having taken York , spread over the whole country , destroying churches and monasteries far and wide with fire-and sword , " leaving nothing remaining save
the bare unroofed walls ; " sometimes those were utterly destroyed . Mr . Stephenson , in a note , J suggests that the name St . Mary-le-Bow is to be attributed to the fact that when in the year 995 the body of St . Cuthbert was carried by the monks to Duimam , which as Simeon tells us was " the spot which had been pointed out to them
by heaven , " they " made a little church of boughs of trees with all speed , therein they placed the shrine for a time . " " From that smaller church" the body " was removed § into another , which was called White
Church , " where it remained during the three years required for the building of the larger one . " At a later period , Bishop Aldhun erected a tolerably large church of stone" at Durham . "The entire population of the district , which extends from the river Coquet to the Tees , readily and willingly
Tendered assistance as well to this work [ the clearing away the forest ] as to the erection of the church at a later period ; nor did they discontinue their labours until the whole was completed . " ( j In the the third year after its foundation the church was dedicated b y Bishop Aldhun , on the 4 th September , 998 , ^ f but we are told * * that at
the death of the Bishop " of the church , the building of which he had commenced , he left behind him nothing more than the western tower , and that in an unfinished condition . "
Aegelrick , when Bishop of Durham , about 1045 f f " thought fit to pull down the wooden church at Cunecaceastre , ( which we now corruptly call Ceastre ) , and to build there another of stone . " Having resigned the Bishopric about the year 1057 , he returned to his own monastery and expended the money he had removed from the church
in "constructing through the fenny regions roads of stone and wood . " ++ In 1072 , Walcher was chosen Bishop , and on some monks coming from Eovesham to Northumbria he gave them the monastery at Jarrow , "the unroofed walls of which were alone standing . . . . Upon those walls they reared a covering formed of unhewn timbers ,