Part 3 — INDEX AND SYNOPSIS

A

Abbey Church, plans, Figs. 1, 3, 12, 15

its total length, 12, 62, 65, 68, 69

Abbots (see Bere, Breynton, Whiting, etc.)

House, 10 ref. and Fig. 9

head (carved), 99 (Fig. 8)

Aisle to north transept (a cloister-alley), 125, 126

Ale, Johannes and the vat of, 89

Aller, John de, 66

Almoner, J. Bryan (lived over the King's Gate), 95

Altar, the High, 45, 56

screen, etc., 51, 56, 58, 77;

its back, with ancient image of B. V. M., 57

sepulchre under, 65

Altars, side, 43

Ambrosius the Cellarer, 66

Andrew, St., Chapel of, 51

Guild of, 100

arches (under tower), 122, 167, and Plate III.

Apse, semicircular, on Phelps' and Warner's plans, 11, 51, 52, 74

polygonal, 57, 61, 73, 74; Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 12; also Plate II.

Arch to Edgar Chapel (antechapel), 43

to end of Quire, 59

relieving, to the north-west angle of central tower, 121

Arches, like St. Andrew's Cross, under tower, 122, 167; Plate III.

Architect of Edgar Chapel (Richard de Tantonia), 67

of Loretto Chapel (Francesco Vecchi), 144, 145, 154

of St. Mark's, Padua (Domenico di Vallera Castiglione), 146

Arimathea, Joseph of, 33 ref.

Convent of (near Guest Hall), 68

Arthur, King: tomb of, 45, 56, 65

Automatism, discussion of, 22

Awfwold the Saxon, 63, 68

Azure glass (vitrea azurea): in script, 37, 72

discovered, 62, 72

B

Bailey, the Inner and Outer, 91 ref.

Bank, on site of the Loretto Chapel, north side of nave, 113, 144, 146, 160, 161, 162

Bards, writings, 87

Barrel vault, in south chantry, 57

Bell-tower, over north-east angle of cloister, burnt, repaired, and pulled down owing to bad foundation, 88

Benedict (for Benignus), St.: Church of, 98, 100;

gargoyle of, 99 (Fig. 8)

Bere or Beere, Abbot Richard, 4, 35, 44, 45, 47, 54, 59, etc.

arms of, 98;

carved head of, 99 (Fig. 8)

embassy, 111;

notes on, 120

built St. Benignus' Church, 100

Edgar Chapel, 53

Loretto Chapel, 111, 120, 125, 126, 145, 146

claustrum in angle of transept, leading to Loretto, 119, 121

his signature in script, 53

his influence on those coming after, 47-48

Body of Christ (in symbolic lines on floor of St. Mary's), 147

Bones, the stirring of the dry, 21

of Abbot Whiting (collected and buried), 65

of St. Dunstan (held by Glastonbury), 91

Braineton, or Breynton, John of, Abbot, 48

geomancer to the Abbey, 147

Bryan, John, Almoner, 95

Bryant, Johannes, monk, curator of Edgar Chapel, sculptor, mason, 37, 38, 40, 41, 45, 47, 57, 59, 66

child of Nature, 85-97 passim

C

Camel, or Camillus, Thesiger—i.e., treasurer to Abbot Bere, 125, 127, 149, 151, 166

house of, 164

path used by, 154

tomb in St. John's, 127

Cancellarius (see Chancellor)

Cannon, MS. of John, 113, 114, 117 (Fig. 11), 124

Cannon, sketch of ruins by, 117

Canterbury, pilgrims from, to shrine of St. Dunstan, 91

Capella St. Edgar (see Chapel)

St. Maria (see Chapel)

Cardinal Wolsey: friend of the Abbey, 91

made Whiting Abbot at Oxford, 101

Castiglione, Domenico, 146

Cava Virginis (the apse of the Loretto Chapel), 129, c, e, g; 130, h, j, k; 139, d; text, 143

Cellarer: Ambrosius, 66

Cellars of Refectory, 66

of Guest Hall, 67

Chalice Hill, 69

chapel on path to, 69

Chamber, the Great, 94

over King's Gate, 95

to the east of Edgar Chapel, 63

Chancellorium, in (as a Chancery: the purpose of Christ Church Hall, as built by Wolsey), 101

Changing-room for the choristers, 68

Chantry (south of Quire), 51

south side of Edgar Chapel, 27 ref.

57 (script), 63;

plan, 64 (Fig. 6)

Chapel of Dunstan, St.: in the west (built by Edgar, and rebuilt by Radulphus), 91

plans, Figs. 12 and 15

in the north (the corner chapel in Fig. 14), 68

Chapel of Edgar, 35, 43, 44, 47, 51, 53, 55, 63, 70-77 (table), 119, 120

plans of, 34, 36, 64 (Fig. 6), 148a (Fig. 12), 153 (Fig. 15); Plate II. (p. 56a)

elevation of, 81

length determined, 63

Chapel of Our Lady of Loretto (site lost): built by Bere,

111;

described in script as being in Italian style, its locus indicated, and details given, 125, 126, 129-142, 146;

plans, 152, 153 (Figs. 14 and 15); Plate V. (154a)

used as a Chapter House by Bere, during repairs, 126

Chapel of St. Mary, 35, 41, 47, 58, 125 (see Retro-Chapel, Lady Chapel, etc.)

the older Lady Chapel, 47, 50, 78

minor, in retro-quire, 43, 51

present, on site of the primitive church, at west end: plans, 148a (Fig. 12), 150, 153 (Figs. 13, 15)

sketches of, Figs. 9, 10, 11

sacred geometry on floor of chapel, 147, 148

geometric principles of the plan, 150, 151, Fig. 13 and ref.

Chapel of St. Michael in the graveyard (burial-place of Johannes), 97

Chapel of St. Thomas of Canterbury, 114, and Fig. 14 (this is the inner chapel shown in Fig. 14, the outer being St. Dunstan)

Chapter House: Edgar Chapel so called in Elizabethan record, 12

Loretto Chapel, so called in Cannon MS., 114, 125, 126

Loretto Chapel used as, by Bere, during repair of, 126

Christ Church Hall, a Chancellorium, 101

Church, Saxon (on site of Edgar Chapel within a fort), 63

Church of Ina, 56

of Turstin, 107

the Great (temp. Jocelyn), 87,88

Clock (horloge) of Peter Lightfoot, 87

Cloister, the Great, 68, 96

Little, 67, 68

to north transept, 126 and Plate V.

of the North Wind, 146, 151; Plate V.

Community of 347 monks (thirteenth century), 88

Company, the, 21, 87, 88 (brotherhood, 94)

Coney, drawing by, Plate IV.; ref. to, 112, 114, 123

Convent of Arimathea (the little convent), 68

Court, the Great, 147

by the graveyard, 94

Covered walk (Abbot's), 96

ways (see Passages)

Cross in the Zodiac, 147

Crypt under stairs of Edgar Chapel, 40, 50, 53

under New Hall, 68

under nave, 41

Curator capellae (J. Bryant), 38

D

Deep Place, the, 144, 166

Distances, Mystery of the, 147

Di Vallera: Domenico, 146

Door (in east wall), 53 (see Portus)

Drain, the Great, 66

Drawings of Edgar Chapel, 67

of Loretto Chapel, 128-142

geometrical, on floor of St. Mary's Chapel, 147

Ducange, dict. of mediæval and low Latin quoted, 33 ref.

Dunstan, St.: bones of, 91

chapel in the west, 91;

chapel in the north, 68;

chapel at Edgarley, 106 ref.

E

Eawulf, or Eanwulf, Saxon Earl of Somerton (Yarl of Edgarley) 29, 105, 108

Edgar, King (Saint), 4, 44

Chapel of, 4, 8, 9, 28, etc., Plate II. (see Chapel)

for "Edmund," 56, 59

Edgarley, 106

Elizabeth, Queen, 4, 12, 66

Enigmas, Sacred, on floor of chapel, 148

Erasmus (friend of Bere), 122

Ell (measure), 43 (In the script still unpublished occurs an authoritative statement that the builder's ell used by the monks was just over 2 feet 4 inches. This makes it identical with the "pace" as indicated in the statement of length on p. 68, where 733 feet = 311 "passus.")

Excavation of Bere's chapel, 53, 54;

completed, 55, 59

of apse, 62

plan, 64

F

Fannes (fan-vaulting) in Edgar Chapel, 38, 43, 57

in claustrum of the Loretto, 119, 145

in Quire, 59

Glo'ster, 38, 58

Fishponds, the Abbey, 147

Flat fan-vault in apse, 57

Fort or enclosure (Saxon), 63

Foundations of apse, 43, Fig. 6

of Bere's Chapel, 51, 59;

also Fig. 6 and Plate II.

mystery in the, 147

Four Ways, the, 147

Francesco de Padua (Vecchi), 145, 154

Freeman, Professor, quoted, 11

G

Galfrith, Frater, 87

Gallery over entrance to Edgar Chapel, 43

Gallery under great west window, 88

under the great east window of Quire, 57

under west window of Refectory, 96

Gargoyle, the, 99

Garth, upper and lower on north side of church, 144

Gate, to Chalice Hill, 63

King's, 95

Maudlin, 146-147

of Remembrance, 144

St. John's, 127-144

Water, 147

Gatehouse keeper's lodging (in dismantled Chapel of Dunstan), 91

Gematria of the Holy Name in the Greek, 151 ref.

Geometry, sacred, 147, 148, 150

Gifts, spiritual, 22-25 and flyleaf

Glastonbury as a centre of spiritual life, 20

Abbey (see Abbey)

Gloucester Cathedral cited, 27 ref.

Glo'ster fannes, in Edgar Chapel, 38

Gold and crimson roof in Edgar Chapel, 53, 77

Grave, a martyr's, 65

Graveyard, monks', 94, 96, 97

chapel in the, 97

Groin (see Vaulting)

Guest Hall, 35, 67, 90, 96

Gulielmus, Monachus, 33 (signature), 34, 38, 45, 58, 86

H

Hærewith the Dane, 94

Hall, the Great, 90, 91, 94, 96

built by Wolsey in Oxford, 101

Handrail, double, 43, 75

Hearne, Thomas (eighteenth-century antiquary), quoted, 12, 62

Herlewin, Abbot, 107 ref.

Hollar (ditto) quoted, 12, 62

View of ruins in 1655,

enlarged, 116 (Fig. 10)

I

Ibericus, journey of, 102

Imperator (Cæsar), 108

Ina (King), Church built by, 56

J

Jocelyn (Trotman), Bishop of Wells, thirteenth century, 67, 88

Johannes (see Bryant)

Joseph of Arimathea (or of Marmore), 33 ref.

K

King's Gate and Way, 66

Kirkyard, 96, 97

Kitchen, Abbot's (the "grete" kitchen), 67, 94

little (between the Refectory and Guest Hall), 67

Kitchen Court, 95

L

Lady Chapel at east end (older), 11

with angular end, 47

Monington's, 50, 51 (see Phelps and Warner)

Lady of Loretto, 119

Lapidator (= stonemason) (J. Bryant), 38

Lay-brothers' House, 96

Lay-Chamber, 96

Lead roof on Edgar Chapel, 55

Leland's Itinerary quoted, 4, 9, 111, 123

Life, Universal (mention in script), 97

Lightfoot, Peter (maker of the clock), 88

Linea bifurcata (Joseph of Arimathea's sepulture), 33 ref.

Lions of Arthur's Tomb, 57

of Loretto Chapel, 131, II. b; 133, II. g; 137, III. a; 141, IV. c; 142; text, 143, 146 ref. 1

Lobby to Loretto Chapel (with round vaults), 151

Lobinell Hist. quoted, 35 ref.

Lodge over the Chalice Gate, 63

Loretto, Chapel of, 111, 125

documents, 111-118

script, re, 119 seq.

dimensions (40 × 21 feet), 125

excavation of cloister footings (1911), 118

Lory, John (carver of gargoyle), 100

M

Malmesbury, William of, on sacred symbols, 148

Mark, Chapel of St. (in Padua), 146 ref.

Marmore, Joseph of, 33 ref.

Martyr's grave (Whiting's), 65

Martyri, 35. (Not known to whom this refers, unless to one of the two Edmunds, both of whom were assassinated. King Edgar died a natural death.)

Maudlin Gate, 146-147

Measures (sacred), 147, 148, 150, 151 ref.

Melchin, Book of, 33 ref.

Memory, cosmic, 20

universal (in script), 97

Merlins, the British, 87

Michael, Chapel of St. (since discovered), 97

Monington, Abbot: lengthened Quire about 1334, 58

modified retro-quire and chapel, 50

Multipartite vaulting (Whiting's work), 35, 38

N

New Hall, 68

North porch, 125, 146

passage through, 125

O

Organs on screen and in chapels, 88, 89

P

Padstow (Cornwall), 103

Padua, Bere's journey to, 120, 121, 143

Francesco de, 145, 154, 166

Chapel of St. Mark in, 146, 166

Panellae (panels), 43

in east window, 57

in Quire, 59

Parapets of Loretto Chapel, 133, II. e, f; 135, II. g; 137, b

Parker, James, quoted, 10

Parlour, Monks', 68

Passages, secret, 53, 63, 66

Passage, timber, to Saxon Church, 56

paved, in inner court, 95

Passus (paces), 68, 69

(a) Mediæval, of 1 foot 7·44 inches (or 1·62 feet)

(b) Romano-British, of 2 feet 4-1/4 inches circa

Note.—The Greek and Roman foot, on which the last is founded, appears in these islands in early monuments such as Stonehenge, as well as in mediæval work. It varies from about 11·52 to 11·74 inches (see Flinders Petrie's Inductive Metrology, p. 109 for English mediæval units; p. 118, Stonehenge (11·54 inches); p. 138, Rome and Mediæval England (11·52 to 11·74 inches); also synoptic table, p. 142a; England 11·6, England, Italy, and Roman Colonies, 11·525 to 11·68 inches).

Patellae (plaques), in Loretto Chapel, 135, II. h

Phædrus (Phocis), voyage of, 103

Pilgrims' processions, 88, 91 Way, 125

Pillars over buttresses (Loretto Chapel), 135, h

Polygonal apse, plan published before discovery, 61

foundations discovered, 62, 64 (Fig. 6)

Ponds of abbey, 146

Portus introitus (door in east wall of Edgar Chapel), 35, 53

(door to Loretto Chapel), 126 (west door); 129, I. e, g; 133, II. d; 139, III. e, f

Priests' houses, 146

Prior's Chapel, 147

Lodgings, 66, 67

Processional path and doors, 56, 58, 65

R

Radulphus (Ralph), FitzStephen, chancellor, and builder of the Abbey Church, 91, 106, 108

FitzHamon (Norman knight, temp. Turstin, 1089 circa), 108

Rebus of Abbot Bere, 100

Refectorium, 67, 68

cellars of, 66

misericorde, 96

Reginaldus (ob. 1214), 46, 58

Bishop of Wells (twelfth century), 46

Relics, where kept, 144

Ribs of vault to Loretto, carved with fruit and flowers, 141, b; 142

Richard de Tantonia (architect of Edgar Chapel), 67

Robert (anno 1334), 48

Rolf, Monachus, 35, 38

S

Saint Andrew, Chapel of, 51

guild of, 100

Bridget, 46

Benedict (or Benignus), 98

Church of, 100

Edgar (King), 35, 44

John's Gate, 127, 144

Mary, Chapel of (see Chapel), 41, 51, 56, etc.

Michael in the graveyard (burial place of Johannes), 97

Patrick, 46

Thomas of Canterbury (site of his Chapel), 114

Schola, the (the Abbey School), 68

Screen, the great (on which was the Quire Organ), 89

behind altar and reredos, 65

Screens in Guest Hall, 90, 91

Script, notes on, 26

errors in, 26-30, 68, 69

"Latin" in, 31

Scriptorium of Abbey, 68

Somerset, Lord, 66

Somerton, Eanwulf, Earl of, 106

Squares (symbolic) in sacred geometry on floor of Lady Chapel, 148, 150

general system of in plan of monastery, 148a (Fig. 12)

Stables of Abbey (near Guest Hall), 67

Stairway to Edgar Chapel, 43

Steps in marble to Edgar Chapel, 43

four or six from Loretto to the transept aisle, 126

four from St. Mary's Garth to the Relics Chapel, 144

four from aisle up to transept, 146, 151

from "vetusta ecclesia" to Ina's Church, 56

Steps from great cloister in south-east corner, XII. down, and IX. up, to back parts of monastery, 68

Stillington's Chapel at Wells, 44

Stukeley's panorama of ruins, 115 (Fig. 9), 160

T

Taunton, Abbot's bones secretly brought from, 65

Richard de (architect), 67, 69

Thesiger, Camillus, 126, 127

Tintagella settlement, 103

Towers, western, 46

Tower, central, 41, 87

bell, 87, 88

Triangles (symbolic) in floor of Lady Chapel, 148

double, in plan of Lady Chapel, 148

Turstin, Abbot, 106, 108

church built by, 105, 107

V

Vallera di, Domenico, 146

Vault, sepulchral, under High Altar, 65

under halls, 66, 67, 68

under central tower and nave, 41

under stairs of St. Mary's (Galilee), 41

Vaulting (volt), quadripartite, 35

multipartite, 35, 38

fans (old style) at east end of Quire, 38

panelled, in Edgar Chapel (fans), 43, 57

fans in claustrum north side of nave, 119

with gilt roundels, 120

barrel section (to chantry chapel), 57

cracked, under central tower, 121, 122

Italian pattern, to Loretto Chapel, 126, 141, 146

Vecchi, Francesco (di Torcello), 154

Vesica Piscis (sacred symbol, containing the double equilateral triangle, found in plan of St. Mary's Chapel), 150 (Fig. 13), 151 ref.

Vestibule (Italian), to Loretto Chapel (the cloister open to the north wind), 146, 151

Vineyards, the Abbey, 146

Virga (a yard), 36, 37

Virgin, ancient statue of (at back of altar-screen), 57

and Child in canopied niche over High Altar, 65

Virginis, Cava (apse, or recess of circular form in the east wall of the Loretto Chapel, as indicated by script), 128-140, 143

W

Walls at an angle, 40, 41, 44, 51, 59, 64 (Figs. 5, 6, and Plate II.)

Warner quoted, 7, 11, 74

plan of older Lady Chapel, 51, 52

Watchers, the, 93

Watergate, 146-147

Wattlework (Saxon), 63, 65

Ways, the Four, 147

Well of Abbey, filled, 95

chamber in court, 94

Wells, Bishop of, 46, 87

chapel at, 44

Cathedral cited, 44, 88

Wells Lady Chapel, 73

Whiting (Whyttinge), Abbot, 4, 35, 37, 55 (signature), 57, 65, 70, 72, 101

Wild, plan by, 13, 16, 40

Willis, Professor, quoted, 7-12, 15, 16

plan by, 9 (Fig. 1)

of retro-chapel, 51, 53

Window, great east; 57;

originally straight, 47;

with balcony under, 65;

lengthened and rebuilt, 58

great west, with gallery under, 88

Window, transomed, in Edgar Chapel, 37

six, in Great Hall, 90, 91

Window, marked with cross (old shrine of Edgar), 44

Windows, three, in apse of Edgar Chapel, 57

three, in claustrum chapel, north side nave

Wolsey, Cardinal, 91, 101

Wyrcestre, William, quoted, 14, 69

reviewed, 13, 14

Y

Yseuguilt (Yseult), Princess, 103

Z

Zodiac (in the floor of St. Mary's Chapel), 147

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