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X.—The Plan of the Church and Monastery of St. Augustine, Bristol
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
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Many plans exist of what is now the Cathedral at Bristol, but there are to my knowledge none to a sufficiently large scale to be of much practical use, and in those that do exist, with two exceptions, the buildings south of the church, that surround the cloister court, are either only roughly outlined or are omitted altogether. The two exceptions are (1) the Ordnance Survey map of 1884, which shows buildings now destroyed, and (2) a plan (without scale) which accompanies a paper by the late Mr. E. W. Godwin, F.S.A., published in the Archaeological Journal for 1863. This is little more than a block plan, but it is the only attempt hitherto made to identify the various monastic buildings. Since this latter plan was made a road has been taken through near the gatehouse, involving the destruction of the buildings that stood on the west side of College Green at that point, and since 1884 another road has been made on the south side across the site of some of the then existing monastic buildings. The precinct is now therefore considerably reduced in area; originally it appears to have included College Green, while the monastic land extended south to the rivers Frome and Avon. The plan (pi. XXXIV) includes all the monastic buildings now remaining, and shows the position and extent as far as possible of those destroyed. Some old plans, the property of the Dean and Chapter, have quite recently been placed at my disposal, which have enabled me to add the buildings west of the church and adjoining the gate-house.
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page 231 note 1 Arch. Journ. xx. 38 ffGoogle Scholar.
page 232 note 1 Smythe, , Lives of the Berkeley's, i. 39.Google Scholar
page 232 note 2 Ibid., p. 59.
page 236 note 1 The plan of this chapter-house should becompared with that at Durham
page 237 note 1 Arch. Journ. xx. 38.
page 238 note 1 Abbot Newland's Chronicle.
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page 241 note 6 Ibid.
page 241 note 7 Ibid.
page 241 note 8 Ibid.
page 241 note 9 Ibid.
page 246 note 1 See paper by the late R. Hall Warren, F.S.A., on ‘The Treasury of the Abbey of St. Augustine, Bristol’, Proceedings Clifton Antiquarian Club, vi. 128.
page 247 note 1 Comp. Durham.
page 247 note 2 I am able to add a plan of this building and that of the Minster House so called, from plans in the possession of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol.
page 248 note 1 See paper by the late Robert Hall Warren, F.S.A., on ‘The Choir Screen of Bristol Cathedral’, Proceedings Clifton Antiquarian Club, vi. 6.
page 248 note 2 An interesting drawing, showing this pulpitum, the wooden screen across the north aisle, and the stairs to the pulpit, is in the Braickenridge Collection (no. 48), now at the Art Gallery, Bristol. In this collection are many other very valuable drawings showing buildings now destroyed.