The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-27 00:00:00

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'.ITLICS.

711 E RESTORA7ION OF WESTMINSTER

CHAPTER-HOUSE.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY b..VENING, AUGUST 27, 1868.

lity of the structure. With the Chapter-house it
was a difficult thing, for the buttresses were lite-
rally rotten, and were so built around that it was
difficult to get at many of them, for all the
stone, which was of a soft kind, was so decayed that
more than three inches of the material was eaten
into, and the foundations too had given way to some
extent under them, so that new buttresses were ab-
solutely necessary. These were erected by raising
the modern roof of the Chapter-house, and then
substituting for the old buttresses new ones in
Chilinark stone from the Wiltshire quarries. This
stone is peculiarly hard, but it has not yet been
tried much in that hardest of all ordeals, the atmo-
sphere of London. A very ingenious specimen
of cross-centring scaffold takes the inward thrust
of these flying buttresses till the groined roof
is finished, and wilt rest upon the centre cluster
of marble columns. These columns have been
sadly misused, and, though finely polished, were
during the time of their degradation as a Record-
office painted black. They were bound round with

copper wire at the capitals and bases as the tall shaft
began to bend and twist in olden times, but beyond
this nothing was done to repair the fabric which
they mainly upheld. The restoration of these
columns to their proper position will be one of the
most difficult works in all the building. For the
rest, every atom of the stone in the old structure
has been used again in the new. It has simply
been " redressed" in the interior, and in the exter-
nal buttresses a harder stone has been substituted
for that which was found to be decayed. Beyond
this no alterations have been attempted. The
groined roof over the centre will be the same as
that which covered the House of Commons nearly
500 years ago. Above this will rise a pointed
roof of iron, cased with lead. The main ribs of
this are so tied in with cross braces that there is
no thrust upon the walls below, which have only
to bear its weight. The windows are to be
filled in with coloured glass, and enough bas fortu-
nately remained of the old lights--that is, of portions
of them—to show how they were once filled with
grisaille, ruby, blue, and other colours. The style
of the period on the spot is known. It consists of a
sort of mosaic of grisaille, with small coloured pieces
at rather wide intervals. There is an example of
the style in the Jerusalem Chamber, and, curiously
enough, a portion of a window of the required date
situated in the apsidal chapel of the Abbey,
but built in by Henry Vll.'s chapel, was recently
discovered. Altogether the restoration of the Chap-
ter-house to its pristine beauty will cost some
00,000 ; but, as we have said, there are few who
will grudge this for the preservation of a build-
ing which is not much younger and scarcely less
historic than the venerable minster itself, to which
it will now add new glories. Beneath the Chapter-
house is a crypt which is little known or seldom
mentioned even in the most ancient or modern his-
tories of archxalogy. This crypt is about 30ft.
square aad some 12ft. high. It has no windows to
it, and the walls in some parts round it are as much
as 15 feet thick. This is, perhaps, the only part
connected with the Abbey which has any-
thing like vaulting under it. The ceiling of
this crypt has a plain groined roof, the arches of
which meet in the centre on a splendid column of
black Purbeck marble, about Bft. high and some
4ft. in diameter. This crypt, however, like the
fabric it supports, has met with cruel misusage. The
great marble column has actually been cut into
gaps, so that little more than a shell of it remains,
in some parts not more than five or six inches thick.
These were used as safes for the most precious of

,he records deposited there. All these chasms w.

now be filled up, and the pillar put in a fair pos,

tion to do its duty in supporting one oI the most
ancient and most beautiful portions of the famous
Abbey of Westminster.

A FARMER KILLED BY A BOAR.