Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales - descriptive, historical, pictorial (1890) (14596406740)

Identifier: cathedralsabbey02bonn (find matches)
Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923 Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Cathedrals Church buildings Church buildings
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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inconsiderable, it has for more than three centuries liveda quiet, unchequered existence, broken only by Fairfaxs siege of the castle in1645. The town first emerges from obscurity at the beginning of the eighthcentury, when Ina, King of Wessex, dissociated Cornwall, Devon, Dorset,Somerset, Wilts, and Berks from the see of Winchester, and erected thosecounties into a separate bishopric with its seat at Sherborne. The saintedAldhelm, who in learning and knowledge of the arts was centuries in advanceof his time, was the first bishop. He it was who first translated the LatinIsalter into Saxon; for him was made the first organ which ever pealed forth Dorchester.) BISHOP ALDHELM. 321 a litany in England. AlJhelm, indeed, was one of the most energetic men of hisage. He founded three monasteries, and suggested the building of Glastonbury.His learning in theology was as remarkable as his accomplishment in poetry andmusic. A line of five-and-twenty Bishops of Sherborne followed him, but shortly
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dokchester: the choiu. after the Conquest Sherborne ceased to be a bishopric, Herman, the last bishop,removing the see to Old Sarum, where he commenced the building of the cathedral.For something more than half a century after the removal of the bishopricthe prosperity of Sherborne languished; but in 1139 Roger, Bishop of Sarum,founded an abbey here, and assigned the cathedral to be the church of themonastery. For three hundred years after its foundation the records of the abbeyare of the most meagre. But about the middle of the fifteenth century therehappened a tragical event which could hardly escape the pen of the chronicler.Jlie ill-feeling, common enough before the Reformation, between the secular and 32; ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. (SHEUnORNE AND the regular clergy had lasted for some four cen-turies ; during the fourteenth century it began togrow more acute, and it ended at last in thealmost total destruction of the beautiful minster.The monks removed the abbey font from itsproper pos