Ecclesiastical Curiosities

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Various. Ecclesiastical Curiosities

Ecclesiastical Curiosities

Table of Contents

[p i] Preface

[p iii] Contents

[p 1] Ecclesiastical Curiosities

The Church Door

[p 30] Sacrificial Foundations

[p 46] The Building of the English Cathedrals

[p 76] Ye Chappell of Oure Ladye

[p 101] Some Famous Spires

[p 113] The Five of Spades and the Church of Ashton-under-Lyne

[p 119] Bells and their Messages

[p 133] Stories about Bells

[p 145] Concerning Font-Lore

[p 153] Watching Chambers in Churches

[p 161] Church Chests

[p 183] An Antiquarian Problem: The Leper Window

[p 186] Mazes

[p 206] Churchyard Superstitions

[p 216] Curious Announcements in the Church

[p 230] Big Bones Preserved in Churches

[p 244] Samuel Pepys at Church

[p 247] Index

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England in the Days of Old

The Bygone Series

[p III] Bygone Punishments

[p IV] The Church Treasury of History, Custom, Folk-Lore, etc

[p V] Historic Dress of the Clergy

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Published by Good Press, 2021

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The gateway which gave admittance to the sacred enclosure of the abbey—the garth or close round which were ranged the monastic buildings—is in many cases an imposing and elaborate piece of architecture. Bristol has an interesting Norman gateway, and that at Durham is massive and impressive, as are all the conventual remains there. Norwich is specially rich in this respect. The Erpingham Gate was the gift of Sir Thomas Erpingham, who died in 1420, and whom the King, in Shakespere’s play of “King Henry V.” (Act iv. sc. I), calls a “good old knight;” S. Ethelbert’s Gate was built at the cost of Bishop Alnwick, who ruled the see from 1426 to 1436.

But to speak of these things is to wander from our present subject, and even that is too wide to be dealt with fully in a paper such as this. The legends and traditions of the church porch might occupy many a page, while we gossiped over the mystic rites of S. John’s Eve or of All Hallow [p 29] E’en; or while we told how Ralph, Bishop of Chichester, barred his cathedral door with thorns in his anger against the King and his friends; or how the skins of marauding Danes have in more than one instance been nailed as leather coverings to the doors of English churches. Enough, however, has probably been said to show the wealth of interest which may often be found to hang about the old church porch, in which the village church may often be as rich as the great cathedral or the stately abbey.

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