Excerpt from Canterbury: Official Guide to the Cathedral Church and Handbook to the City May notice that a large number Of houses follow this type, though naturally the warehouse has been turned into a living room. On the left is the church of S. Peter, which for many years was neglected and disused, It is now worked chiefly by members Of S. Augustine's College, to whose energy its restoration is due. This has been carried out wisely and not too well, and leaves the curiously irregular architecture to tell its own ...
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Excerpt from Canterbury: Official Guide to the Cathedral Church and Handbook to the City May notice that a large number Of houses follow this type, though naturally the warehouse has been turned into a living room. On the left is the church of S. Peter, which for many years was neglected and disused, It is now worked chiefly by members Of S. Augustine's College, to whose energy its restoration is due. This has been carried out wisely and not too well, and leaves the curiously irregular architecture to tell its own story This is plain enough and interesting enough for the lover of church architecture to read without assistance, but his attention should be called to the oolite quoins of the tower, and to the tiles which are built into the substance Of it. The tiles are probably, and the oolite very possible, Roman material. We Shall find instances of both in other places, notably in S. Mildred's Church (see sec. A few yards further a street, still called The Friars, leads to the left. Here stood one of the gates leading to the house Of the Black Friars, or Dominicans (see sec. This was the first house established by this order in England after their arrival in 1220. Almost opposite, just beyond the Wesleyan Chapel a narrow path to the right leads to the remains of the house of the great rival Order of the Grey Friars or Franciscans. Of this there still exists an interesting house built over the river, and parts Of the boundary walls in the adjacent gardens. East bridge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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