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X.—Gundulf's Tower at Rochester, and the first Norman Cathedral Church there
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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The first Norman cathedral church erected at Rochester was a building presenting remarkable, and in some respects unique, features. Though very little of the original fabric remains above ground, discoveries made from time to time, and fortunately put on record, enable us to ascertain its precise extent. Its documentary history, too, is fairly clear.
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page 323 note a “Anno Dominicae incarnationis sexcentesimo quarto Augustinus Brittaniarum archiepiscopus, ordinavit duos episcopos, Mellitum videlicet et Justum Justum … vero in ipsa Cantia Augus-tinus episcopum ordinavit in civitate Dorubrevi … in qua rex Ædilberct ecclesiam beati Andreas apostoli fecit, qui etiam episcopis utriusque ecclesise dona multa obtulit; sed et territoria ac possessiones in usum eorum qui erant cum episcopis adjecit.” Bccdce Historia Ecclesiastica Geutis Anglorum, ii. 3.
page 324 note a “Ab incarnatione Dominica anno sexcentesimo quadragesimo quarto, reverentissimus pater Paulinus, quondam quidem Eburacensis, sed tune Hrofensis episcopus civitatis, transivit ad Dominum sexto iduum Octobrium die … sepultusque est in secretario beati apostoli Andreæ, quod rex Ædilberct a fundamentis in eadem Hrofi civitate construxit.” Bceda, iii. 14.
page 324 note b “Sepultus vero est in porticu sancti Pauli apostoli, quam intra ecclesiam sancti Andreaa sibi ipse in locum sepulchri fecerat.” Breda, v. 23.
page 325 note a “Opus omne intra paucos annos Lanfranco pecunias sumministrante multas perficitur.” Gott. MS. Nero, A. 8, f. 52.
page 326 note a See the drawing on Plate I., from Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales (vol. v.), showing the tower as it was in 1781.
page 326 note b Thorpe, Iiegistrurn Roffense, 118 et seq.
page 327 note a Anglia Sacra, i. 375.
page 327 note b Beg. Boff. 6.
page 327 note c “Perfectis igitur omnibus; sicut dictum est que servis dei apud rovecestriam manentibus poterant esse sufficientia. habito cum sapientibus consilio idem venerabilis pater collecto monachorum et clericorum conventu. necnon et copiosa multitudine plebis. cum magna solennitate accessit ad sepulchrum sanctissimi confessoris Paulini. qui in veteri ecclesia reconditus fuerat; et thesaurum sanctarum reliquiarum eius in novam ecclesiam transferri. et in loco decentur ad hoc preparata reponi fecit.” Gott. MS. Nero. A. 8, f. 53.
page 328 note a “Lanfrancus archiepiscopus … fecit etiam levari corpus sancti Paulini et in feretrc argenteo quod ipse fieri fecit poni.” Gott. MS. Vesp. A. 22.
page 328 note b The parts of Gundulf's church which remain above ground are shown in solid black on the block ground plan on Plate I.
page 328 note c See Mr. Ashpitel's paper in vol. ix. of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association.
page 329 note a See the ground plans on Plates I. and II.
page 331 note a See “section” on Plate I.
page 331 note b Then clerk of the works under Sir G. G. Scott, and to whose valuable notes of this and other discoveries in connection with the early-Norman work I am much indebted.
page 334 note a Beg. Roff. 121.