New Series Of 16th-Century Music From France And Flanders.

Text and Illustration: LATIN MASS SOCIETY

This Article is a re-print from 2024 and gives in-depth analysis of the superb music available from the LATIN MASS SOCIETY

New series of 16th-Century music from France and Flanders.

The Latin Mass Society (LMS) and its Southwell Consort announced a new series of polyphonic Masses 

taking place at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane. 

 These Monday evening Masses feature music by 

Franco-Flemish composers from the 16th-Century. 

 From January 2024 to April 2024, the Southwell Consort, under the direction of Dominic Bevan and invited conductors, performed a series of eight polyphonic Masses showcasing works by composers such as Lassus, Gombert, Rogier, 

Clemens non Papa, and others.

Highlights included Lassus’ “Missa Bel Amfitrit” 

on Easter Monday and de la Rue’s “Missa Ave Maria” 

on the Feast of The Annunciation. 

A Live-Stream of Masses 

from Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Maiden Lane, London, can be accessed 

HERE

The Traditional Latin Mass provides the original

Liturgical context for which this music was composed.

The Southwell Consort was established in 2021 as a 

polyphonic Choir to accompany the Traditional Liturgy 

and includes professional and amateur singers.

Please support the series by giving to the

LMS Music Fund Appeal.

Monday Evening Masses at Maiden Lane.

The Southwell Consort and Houghton Consort 

sing on alternate Monday evenings at Corpus Christi, 

Maiden Lane, London WC2E 2NB. 

 The Southwell Consort sings a wide range of 

polyphonic settings, whilst the Houghton Consort 

is dedicated to singing Gregorian Chant. 

 The Masses take place at 6.30 pm 

and can be seen on livesteam here 

(see, YouTube, below):

Live-Stream Masses from Corpus Christi, 

Maiden Lane, London.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Those interested in singing with either consort 

should E-Mail Dominic Bevan southwell@lms.org.uk

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Contest of the Cathedrals.

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Saint Agatha. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 5 February. Red Vestments.

Saint Agatha.

Attended in Prison by Saint Peter and an Angel.

Artist: Alessandro Turchi (1578–1649).

According to an early Christian legend, when a 3rd-Century A.D. Roman official of Sicily desired the Christian woman, Agatha, and she refused to yield, he had her tortured, and even ordered her breasts cut off. At night, in prison, she was visited by a vision of Saint Peter and an Angel, and her breasts were restored. The grey stone of the prison wall was created by letting the slate show through, and it forms a background for the night scene, illuminated by a torch. As opposed to canvas and wood, slate gave a painting almost unlimited durability and the same kind of permanence as sculpture.

Date: 1640-1645 (Baroque).

Current location: Walters Art Museum,

Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

Credit line: Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1909.

Source/Photographer: Walters Art Museum

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English: 

Parish Church of Saint Agatha of Sicily,

Bischofstetten, Austria.

Deutsch: 

Pfarrkirche Bischofstetten, Österreich.

Photo: 8 February 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: BSonne

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unless otherwise stated.

Saint Agatha of Sicily is a Christian Saint, whose Feast Day is 5 February. Agatha was born at Catania, Sicily, and Martyred circa 251 A.D. 

She is one of seven women, who, along with The Blessed Virgin Mary, are Commemorated by name in the Canon of The Mass. [Editor: The seven women who, besides The Blessed Virgin Mary, are Commemorated by name in the Canon of The Mass are: Felicitas; Perpetua; Agatha; Lucy; Agnes; Cecilia; Anastasia.]

She is the Patron Saint of: Catania, Sicily; Molise, Italy; Malta; San Marino; and Zamarramala, a municipality of the Province of Segovia, Spain. 

She is also the Patron Saint of breast cancer patients, Martyrs, wet nurses, bell-founders, bakers, fire, earthquakes, and eruptions of Mount Etna.

Agatha is buried at the Abbey Church of Saint Agatha (Badia di Sant’Agata), Catania. 

She is listed in the Late-6th-Century A.D. Martyrologium Hieronymianum, associated with Jerome, and the Synaxarion, the Calendar of the Church of Carthage, circa 530 A.D.

English: The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha.

Italiano: Martirio di Sant’Agata.

Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

This File: 17 April 2006.

User: Crux. Image copied from wikipedia:de

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Two early Churches were dedicated to her in Rome, notably the Church of Sant'Agata dei Goti, in Via Mazzarino, a Titular Church with Apse mosaics of circa 460 A.D., and traces of a fresco cycle, over-painted by Gismondo Cerrini, in 1630.

In the 6th-Century A.D., the Church was adapted to Arian Christianity, hence its name, “Saint Agatha of Goths” (Sant’Agata dei Goti), and later re-Consecrated by Pope Gregory the Great, who confirmed her Traditional Sainthood.

Agatha is also depicted in the mosaics of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, where she appears, richly dressed, in the procession of female Martyrs along the North Wall. Her image forms an initial “I” in the Sacramentary of Gellone, from the end of the 8th-Century A.D.

English: Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (1702-1768), 

was the Architect of the Abbey Church of

Saint Agatha, Catania, Sicily.

Italiano: Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (1702-1768),

la Chiesa della Badia di Sant'Agata a Catania (1767).

Photo: 4 July 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Giovanni Dall'Orto

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One of the most-highly-Venerated Virgin Martyrs of Christian antiquity, Agatha was put to death during the Persecution of Decius (250 A.D. - 253 A.D.) in Catania, Sicily, for her steadfast profession of Faith.

Her written legend comprises “straightforward accounts of interrogation, torture, resistance, and triumph, which constitute some of the earliest hagiographic literature”, and are reflected in later recensions, the earliest surviving one being an illustrated Late-10th-Century “Passio”, bound into a composite volume, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, originating, probably, in Autun, Burgundy; in its margin illustrations, Magdalena Carrasco detected Carolingian or Late-Antique iconographic traditions.

According to Jacobus de Voragine's, “Legenda Aurea”, circa 1288, having dedicated her Virginity to God, fifteen-year-old Agatha, from a rich and noble family, rejected the amorous advances of the low-born Roman Prefect, Quintianus, who then persecuted her for her Christian Faith. He sent Agatha to Aphrodisia, the keeper of a brothel.

English: Church of Saint Agatha,

Rabat, Malta.

Italiano: Chiesa di Sant'Agata,

Rabat, Malta.

Photo: 31 August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Cruccone

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Madam finding her intractable, Quintianus sends for her, argues, threatens, and finally has her put in prison. Among the tortures she underwent was the cutting off of her breasts. After further dramatic confrontations with Quintianus, represented in a sequence of dialogues in her “Passio” that document her fortitude and steadfast devotion. Saint Agatha was then sentenced to be burned at the stake, but an earthquake saved her from that fate; instead, she was sent to prison where Saint Peter the Apostle appeared to her and healed her wounds.

Saint Agatha died in prison, according to the “Legenda Aurea”, in “The Year of Our Lord two hundred and fifty-three, in the time of Decius, The Emperor of Rome”. Osbern Bokenham, “A Legend of Holy Women”, written in the 1440s, offers some further detail.

English: Saint Agatha’s Chapel,

Mdina, Malta.

Italiano: Cappella di Sant’Agata,

Mdina, Malta.

Photo: 31 August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Cruccone

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Agatha's Church,

Yorkshire, England.

The Church is next to Easby Abbey.

Photo: 15 June 2008.

Source: Own work by uploader.

Author: Greenjettaguy

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The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Saint Agatha.
   Virgin and Martyr.
   Feast Day 5 February.

Double.

Red Vestments.

English: 

Cathedral of Saint Agatha,

Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Deutsch: 

Italien, Sizilien, Catania, Dom Sant’Agata.

Photo: 6 October 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Berthold Werner

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr (Collect), was born in Sicily of noble parentage, but she estimated that, for her, the highest nobility would be to belong to Jesus, Whom she took as her Spouse (Gospel).

Endowed with remarkable beauty, she had to resist the solicitations of the Roman Governor, Quintianus, who, unable to attain his end by persuasion, had recourse to violence. 

Her breast was torn by his order, but was healed on the following night, by the Apostle, Saint Peter, who appeared to her in prison (Communion).

Then, the body of the Saint was rolled on pieces of broken pottery and on burning coals, and, when she was brought back to her cell, she expired while Praying.

This happened at Catana (Catania), Sicily, in 251 A.D., during the persecution of the Emperor, Decius. 

God Almighty, by granting the victory of Martyrdom to a feeble woman (Collect), wished to show that He alone is our Redeemer, for it is with this “end in view, that He chooses what is weak, in the World, to confound with their nothingness those who trust in their own strength” (Epistle).

English:  

Church of Saint Agatha,

Hausleiten, Austria.

Deutsch: 

Katholischen Pfarrkirche hl. Agatha in der niederösterreichischen Gemeinde Hausleiten

Photo: 29 September 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Bwag

(Wikimedia Commons)

On several occasions, the veil, which covered the tomb of Saint Agatha, held up the torrents of burning lava rushing down from Mount Etna and threatening to ruin the town. God thus honoured the resistance that her very pure Soul had shown to all the assaults of passion.

Her name is mentioned in the Canon of The Mass (Second List). Her Feast was already Celebrated at Rome in the 6th-Century A.D. The Church of Saint Agatha, in Rome, was made a Stational Church by Pope Pius XI in 1934 (The Third Tuesday in Lent).

Let us invoke Saint Agatha to preserve our homes from fire and to extinguish, through the Spirit of Penitence, the impure flames that consume our bodies and our Souls.

Mass: Gaudeámus omnes in Domino.
Commemoration: Of the Feria during Lent.
Last Gospel: Of the Feria during Lent.

[Editor: The Introit “Gaudeámus”, which is used for many Feast Days, is taken from the Mass of Saint Agatha.]

“It Is Known . . .”

Pope Alexander II (1010 - 1073). (Part One). Authorised The Norman Conquest Of England In 1066.

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unless stated otherwise.

Pope Alexander II (1010 – 21 April 1073), whose Christian name was Anselm, was the Head of The Roman Catholic Church and Ruler of The Papal States from 1061 to his death in 1073.

Born in Milan, he was deeply involved in the Pataria reform movement. Elected according to the terms of his predecessor’s Bull “In Nomine Domini”, Pope Alexander II was the first election by the Cardinals without the participation of the people and Minor Clergy of Rome. He also authorised the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

He was born of a noble family in the Parish of Cesano Boscone, in the town of Corsico, some seven kilometres (four miles) from Milan.

The family took its name from Baggio, a suburb of Milan, where the family held the Office of “Captain”.[2] According to the Liber Pontificalis,[3] his father’s name was Anselmus or Ardericus.

Contemporary sources do not provide any information on where he might have obtained his education.[4] It was traditionally believed that Anselm de Baggio studied under Lanfranc at Bec Abbey, Normandy, France. However, modern historiography rejects that assertion.[5]

He became a Member of the Clergy of the Cathedral of Milan,[6] and was Ordained a Priest by Archbishop Wido (Guido) of Milan.[7]

He was one of the Founders of the Pataria,[8] a movement in the Archdiocese of Milan, aimed at reforming the Clergy and Ecclesiastic Government in the Province, and supportive of Papal sanctions against Simony and Clerical Marriage.[9]

They contested the Ancient Rights of the Cathedral Clergy of Milan and supported the Gregorian Reforms. Anselm was one of four “upright and honest” Priests suggested to succeed Ariberto da Intimiano as Prince Bishop of Milan.

When the Emperor, Henry III, chose instead the more worldly Guido da Velate, protests followed. In order to silence a vocal critic, Bishop Guido sent Anselm to the Imperial Court.[10]

PART TWO FOLLOWS.

Contest Of The Cathedrals. The Romanesque Period.

Contest of the Cathedrals.

The Romanesque period.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Aelred Of Rievaulx. (Part Nine).

 

Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire.

Date: 2011.

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Dr. Marsha Dutton.

“The Historical Works Of Saint Aelred Of Rievaulx”.

“Part One: The Battle Of The Standard”.

Available on YouTube

HERE

PART TEN FOLLOWS.

Light In The Darkness.

Illustration: SPILLWORDS

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at,

VOICE FOR JUSTICE UK

This Article is re-printed from 2023.

Light In The Darkness.

When a society loses its way and becomes decadent, 

it dies. From the beginning of history, we have seen this

time and again, most famously perhaps with the

fall of the Roman empire.

The usual, and perhaps most straightforward, reason given is that it became overstretched and suffered a string of military defeats in its encounters with barbarian tribes, combined with a loss of centralised political control that was to prove fatal.

All of which is most assuredly true, but its decline was unquestionably exacerbated by the moral decay, degeneracy and general weakness that became a hallmark of Roman society in its latter years.

Light In The Darkness.

The same traits – seen in the unremitting focus on Self and demand for instant gratification – are perhaps evident in our own society today. It’s not so much that moral standards have slipped, as that we are rapidly losing the values on which our society is founded and has up to now flourished.

Even worse perhaps, in this brave new world of reconfigured morality, we demand that ‘old’ values, such as sexual purity, faithfulness and the requirement of commitment, be proscribed, with those who dare give voice to such reactionary notions branded intolerant bigots, and even criminalised.

As instance of this, in the news this week we have had the 

story of Izzy Montagu, a Christian mother now suing her 

4-year old son’s Primary school for forcing him to take part in a Pride parade (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11702239/Christian-mother-sues-four-year-old-sons-school-saying-LGBT-parade.html).

Light In The Darkness.

Her request for the boy to be excused, because the event went against the family’s Christian beliefs, was apparently summarily dismissed. Even worse, it was treated with contempt, because at a meeting Izzy attended at the school to discuss the matter, the head teacher’s daughter wore a t-shirt saying, ‘Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic, when you can just be quiet ?’

Needless to say, at that same meeting,

Izzy’s request was turned down.

This is unacceptable. Have we really reached the point

where anyone who upholds traditional faith can 

simply be bludgeoned into silence ?

Because this is what was going on here.

Light In The Darkness.

Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as enforced under UK law in the Human Rights Act 1998 states, ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion … either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance’ (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/

1998/42/schedule/1/part/I/chapter/8 ).

However, Heavers Farm Primary, intent on 

enforcing its ideological message of ‘equality’, 

apparently felt it could ignore this.

This is bigotry and discrimination of the worst kind, 

and must be called out and exposed for what it is.

It is surely time for activists to be held to account.

Gloucester Cathedral.

Gloucester Cathedral.

Photo: 9 July 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Diliff

Attribution:

Photo by DAVID ILIFF.

Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

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Gloucester Cathedral.

Available on YouTube

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Gloucester Cathedral Cloisters.

Licence © All rights reserved by Martyn.Smith

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The Time After Candlemas And The Feast Of The Purification Of Mary (Presentation Of Our Lord). The End Of Christmas-Tide. Mary Is “Mediatrix Of All Graces” And “Mother Of God”.

Text is from “The Liturgical Year”.
   By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
   Volume 3.
   Christmas.
   Book II.

Saint Andrew Corsini (1302-1373). Confessor And Bishop. Feast Day 4 February. White Vestments.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saint Andrew Corsini.
   Bishop and Confessor.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Andrew Corsini at Prayer.

Deutsch: Hl. Andreas Corsini im Gebet.

Artist: Guido Reni (1575–1642).

Date: 1630-1635.

Current location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project:

10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.

Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Permission: [1]

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Saint Andrew, of the noble family of Corsini, was born at Florence, and, from his birth, was Consecrated to The Blessed Virgin. His mother dreamed that she had given birth to a wolf, which, on entering into the Carmelite Church, was suddenly changed into a lamb.

Her son, indeed, led a dissolute life in his youth. But Jesus exerted His redeeming power over him and Andrew entered the Carmelite Order and soon became its Head in Tuscany (Communion).

Having thus turned to good use the talents with which God had favoured him, he rose to a still-higher dignity (Gospel) and, as Bishop of Fiesole, he had a share in the Priesthood of Christ, and accomplished His work of reconciling Souls with God.

Thus, having been sent to Bologna, as Papal Legate, by Pope Urban V, he succeeded by his great prudence in extinguishing the burning hatred which had armed the citizens against each other (Epistle). The Blessed Virgin foretold him his death, which occurred in 1373.

Made wolves by sin, let us, like Saint Andrew Corsini, become lambs by Penance, in order that, “following in the footsteps of this Holy Confessor, we may obtain the same rewards” (Collect).

Mass: Státuit. Of a Confessor Bishop.

The Church of Santa Maria del Carmine,

Florence, which contains the Corsini Chapel.

This File: 9 July 2006.

User: Sailko.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: The Corsini Chapel,

Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence.

Français: Église Santa Maria del Carmine,

Florence, Toscane, Italie. La chapelle Corsini.

Photo: 23 September 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Tango7174

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless otherwise stated.

Andrew Corsini, O.Carm. (1302 – 1373), was an Italian Carmelite Friar and Bishop of Fiesole, who is honoured as a Saint within The Catholic Church.

Corsini was born in Florence on 30 November 1302, a member of the illustrious Corsini family. Wild and dissolute in youth, he was startled by the words of his mother about what had happened to her before his birth, and, becoming a Carmelite Friar in his native City, began a life of great mortification. He studied at Paris and Avignon.

On his return, Corsini became the “Apostle of Florence”. He was regarded as a prophet and a wonder-worker. After being elected to the Office of Bishop of Fiesole, which he did not want, he fled. He was discovered by a child at the Charterhouse at Enna, and was subsequently compelled to accept the honour.

English: Church of Santa Maria del Carmine,

Florence. The Vault over the entire Nave,

with the Apse (Left) and main entrance (Right).

Français: Église Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence. 

La voûte au-dessus de la nef dans son intégralité, 

l’abside étant sur la gauche

et l’entrée principale sur la droite.

Photo: 23 September 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Tango7174

(Wikimedia Commons)

Corsini redoubled his austerities as a Bishop, was lavish in his care of the poor, and was sought for everywhere as a peacemaker, notably at Bologna, whither he was sent, as Papal Legate, to heal the breach between the nobility and the people.

After twelve years in the Episcopacy, Corsini died in his native Florence in 1373, at the age of seventy-one. In 1675, after his Canonisation, the members of the Corsini family had the Corsini Chapel built in the Carmelite Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, in Florence, Italy, to provide his Remains a more suitable resting place.

The Corsini Chapel, Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome.

San Giovanni-in-Laterano is the Cathedral Church of Rome.

Photo: October 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Maros M r a z (Maros)

(Wikimedia Commons)

In 1373, while Corsini had been Celebrating the Midnight Mass of Christmas Eve, The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him and told him he would leave this World on the Feast of The Epiphany. 

It came to pass, as the vision had told him, and he died on that day.

Miracles were so multiplied at his death that Pope Eugene IV permitted a public devotion to him, immediately. It was only in 1629 that Pope Urban VIII formally confirmed this. His Feast is kept on 4 February, in the Carmelite Order, and in the Cities of Florence and Fiesole.

In the Early-18th-Century, Pope Clement XII, born Lorenzo Corsini, erected, in the Roman Basilica of Saint John Lateran, a magnificent Chapel dedicated to his 14th-Century kinsman.

English: The Church of Santa Maria del Carmine,

Florence, which contains the Corsini Chapel.

Français: L’église Santa Maria del Carmine de Florence.

Photo: October 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Emmanuel BRUNNER Manu25

(Wikimedia Commons)

Dunstable Priory. (Part Nine).

Print of Dunstable Priory.

Published 24 December 1819.

Longman & Lackington & Co

and Joseph Harding, London.

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unless stated otherwise.

Bishop Grey's injunctions are the only notice that we have of the internal history of the Priory during the 15th-Century. They do not indicate any special laxity, and only repeat the usual orders as to silence, singing of the Divine Office, the unlawfulness of eating and drinking after Compline, going to Dunstable, or having visitors without permission. 

And so again at the very end, just before the Dissolution, the silence of Bishop Longland, and the King’s choice of the Priory for the Solemn announcement of his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, constitute indirect evidence in favour of the Priory. 

On the whole, the Priory of Dunstable shows a very good record in the matter of discipline and order, with only a few lapses.[6]

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The Priory Church of Saint Peter, with its Monastery, was Founded by Augustinian Canons (Monks), under the patronage of King Henry I, in 1132. King Henry I gave the Priory control of Dunstable.

The Norman-Style Church was built in the form of a Cross, with a Great Tower at the Crossing and with two smaller Towers at the West End. 

Progress was slow and it was some seventy-eighty years before the Church was complete. Ten years later, a violent storm destroyed much of the frontage of the Church. The damaged part was rebuilt, but in a different Style (Early English-Style).

Dunstable Priory.

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The Monastic buildings consisted of a dormitory for the monks, an infirmary, stables, workshops, bakehouse, brewhouse and buttery. 

There was also a hostel for Pilgrims and travellers, the remains of which is known today as Priory House. Opposite the Priory, was one of the Royal Palaces belonging to King Henry I, known as Kingsbury. Today, it is the site of the Old Palace Lodge Hotel and the Norman King pub.

In 1290, the funeral cortege of Queen Eleanor, wife of King Edward I, was housed overnight at the Priory and, in 1533, the annulment of the marriage of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon took place in the Priory Lady Chapel.

Five interesting things 

about Dunstable Priory.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Until the close of the 14th-Century, local Parishioners used the North Aisle as their Parish Church. However, as the Town grew, they began to spill out into the Nave. 

The Canons did not welcome this, but an agreement was reached that the local people should be responsible for the upkeep of the Nave. 

This they did as cheaply as possible, resulting in the Nave Roof changing to a Flat Roof and the Western Tower to a Bell Tower.

The closure of Religious Houses began in 1536 and the Church and Monastery were finally closed down in January 1540. 

A turbulent period followed with many of the Priory buildings being pulled down. However, the part used by the local Parishioners was saved, and is still in use today as the Priory Church of Saint Peter.

This concludes the Article on Dunstable Priory.

The Twenty-Six Mediæval Cathedrals Of England (Part Thirteen).

The Lancet Gothic East End and Tower of Southwark Cathedral. The Cathedral was Founded as a Nun’s Church in the 8th-Century A.D. Secular Canons in 852 A.D. Augustinian Canons 1106-1540. Present structure: East End 1208-1235; Transepts 1273; Tower 1385 and 1520; Present Nave by Sir Arthur Blomfield 1889-1897. Became a Cathedral in 1905.

Photo: 9 May 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: Amandajm

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unless stated otherwise.

Because the architecture of English Cathedrals is so diverse and inventive, the internal appearances differ a great deal. However, in general, English Cathedral Interiors tend to give an impression of length. 

This is in part because many of the buildings are actually very long, but also because, more than in the Mediæval architecture of any other Country, the horizontal direction is given as much visual emphasis as the vertical. 

This is particularly the case at Wells Cathedral, where, unlike most Gothic buildings, there are no vertical Shafts that continue from the Arcade to the Vault, and there is a very strong emphasis on the Triforium Gallery with its seemingly endless and undifferentiated row of narrow Arches. 

Contest of the Cathedrals.

The Romanesque period.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Salisbury Cathedral has a similar lack of verticals, while the course below the Triforium and the undecorated Capitals of Purbeck Stone create strong visual horizontals.

In the cases of Winchester, Norwich, and Exeter, the horizontal effect is created by the emphasis on the Ridge Rib of the elaborate Vaults.[4]

The complexity of the Vault is another significant feature of English Cathedrals.[5]

Sherborne Abbey.

Available on YouTube

HERE

The Vaults range from:

The simple Quadripartite Vault, in the French manner, at Chichester Cathedral, through increasingly elaborate forms including the Multi-Ribbed (“Tierceron”) Vault at Exeter Cathedral;

The similar Vault with Inter-Connecting (“Lierne”) Ribs at Norwich Cathedral, the still more elaborate variation at Winchester;

The array of unique Lierne Vaults at Bristol, the net-like Stellar Vaulting of the Choirs at Gloucester and York;

Winchester Cathedral.

Available on YouTube

HERE

The Fan Vaulting of the Retro-Choir at Peterborough, and the Pendant Vaulting of the Choir at Oxford, where elaborate Long Stone Bosses are suspended from the Ceiling like Lanterns.[4] 

Many of the more elaborate forms are unique to England, with Stellar Vaulting also occurring in Spain and Germany.[5]

While, in most cases, a Norman Church entirely replaced a Saxon Church, at Ripon, the Cathedral uniquely retains its Early-Saxon Crypt, while a similar Crypt also survives below the former Cathedral of Hexham. 

Wells Cathedral.

Available on YouTube

HERE

At Winchester, the excavated foundations of the 10th-Century Cathedral – when built, the largest Church in Northern Europe – are marked on the grass of the Cathedral Close. 

At Worcester, a new Cathedral was built in the Norman Style from 1084, but the Crypt contains re-used Stonework and Columns from its two Saxon predecessor Churches. 

Elsewhere, the Abbey Church of Sherborne preserves much masonry from the former Saxon Cathedral, in the West Front, Transepts and Crossing, so that the Nave and Crossing of the present Late-Mediæval Abbey retains the proportions of the previous Saxon structure.

PART FOURTEEN FOLLOWS.