THE ANGLO-NORMAN ABBEY CHURCH OF ST ALBANS AND THE AISLELESS NAVE OF ITS CRUCIFORM PREDECESSOR: THE MATERIAL EVIDENCE

IF 0.2 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Jill A. Franklin
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Within the Romanesque abbey church at St Albans (Hertfordshire), the vestiges of an earlier structure have been identified for the first time. A hitherto unrecorded feature in the transept, noted by the author in 2017, indicates that, at some stage, the nave lacked its existing arcade piers and instead had solid walls. The implications of this are considerable, calling for a thorough reassessment of the building’s history. For now, it is important to record the primary evidence, so as to make it available for further research. This article aims to provide a concise account of the evidence and a summary of what it might mean. According to the thirteenth-century chronicler, Matthew Paris, the existing church was begun in 1077 and completed in 1088. New evidence indicates, however, that the Romanesque building, with its aisled nave and presbytery, was preceded by a cruciform structure without aisles. The inference is that the existing building contains the fabric of this unaisled predecessor. The obvious conclusion – that it therefore represents the lost Anglo-Saxon abbey church – does not follow without question; as yet, excavation has yielded no conclusive evidence of an earlier church on the site. The critical diagnostic feature presented here for the first time adds substance to the view that the remodelling of unaisled buildings was not uncommon in the post-Conquest period, including large as well as minor churches, as identified long ago at York Minster and, more recently, at Worksop Priory.
盎格鲁-诺曼风格的圣奥尔本斯修道院教堂及其十字形前身的无通道中殿:物证
在圣奥尔本斯(赫特福德郡)的罗马式修道院教堂内,首次发现了早期建筑的遗迹。作者在2017年指出,耳堂中一个迄今未记录的特征表明,在某个阶段,中殿缺乏现有的拱廊墩,而是有坚固的墙壁。其影响相当大,需要对该建筑的历史进行彻底的重新评估。目前,重要的是记录初步证据,以便进行进一步研究。本文旨在对证据进行简要说明,并对其含义进行总结。根据十三世纪编年史家Matthew Paris的说法,现存的教堂始建于1077年,竣工于1088年。然而,新的证据表明,这座罗马式建筑的中殿和长老会教堂是一座没有过道的十字形结构。推断出,现有的建筑包含了这个未被隔离的前身的结构。显而易见的结论——因此它代表了失落的盎格鲁撒克逊修道院教堂——并非毫无疑问;到目前为止,挖掘工作还没有发现遗址上早期教堂的确凿证据。这里首次提出的关键诊断特征为这样一种观点增添了实质内容,即在后征服时期,未隔离建筑的改建并不罕见,包括很久以前在约克明斯特和最近在Worksop修道院发现的大教堂和小教堂。
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