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XXII.—On the Discovery of some Remains of the Chapter-house of Beverley Minster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

John Bilson
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The remains which are the subject of these notes are, unfortunately, but scanty, and belong to the undercroft of the chapter-house, rather than to the chapter-house itself. Still, slight as they are, they enable us to determine with sufficient accuracy the plan of what must have been a beautiful addition to this most beautiful church.

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Archaeologia , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , 1895 , pp. 425 - 432
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1895

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page 428 note a The polygons of the chapter-houses of Lincoln, Westminster, Salisbury, and York seem to have been inscribed in circles of 60 feet diameter, measured in the clear of the vaulting shafts. (Sir Scott's, G. G.Gleanings from Westminster Abbey, 2nd ed., p. 39.)Google Scholar

page 429 note a I am indebted to Mr. Wm, Page, F.S.A., for the knowledge of this document, which will be printed in his forthcoming volume of Yorkshire Chantry Certificates for the Surtees Society.

page 429 note b The table will be found at the end of this paper. I have to acknowledge the great assistance kindly given me, in its compilation, by the Rev. Precentor Venables, Mr. W. H. St. John Hope, Mr. C. C. Hodges, and others.

page 430 note a This statement appeared to me to be warranted by the following lines (2308-2311) in La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei (Lives of Edward the Confessor, ed. H. R. Luard, Rolls Series, 1858):

“Clostre i fait, cliapitre a frund,

Vers Orient vouse e rund,

U si ordené ministre,

Teingnent lur secrei chapitre.”

It would, however, seem more probable that this Westminster chapter-house was not circular, but had, as Mr. J. T. Micklethwaite suggests, an apsidal eastern termination. See Mr. paper, Micklethwaite's, Archaeological Journal, li. 9.Google Scholar

page 431 note a The chapter-house of Belvoir (Benedictine) is said to have occupied a similar position.

page 431 note b In some churches of secular canons, such as Exeter and the Welsh cathedrals, the rectangular form of chapter-house was retained.

page 432 note a Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture Française du XIe au XVIe Siècle, viii. 70 (Art. Sacristie).