[This chapter contains many other remarks on trades, inventions,
machinery, &c. similar in character to the above.- J. B.]
PART II - CHAPTER VI.
ARCHITECTURE.
[IN this chapter, the account of Aubrey's visit to Old Sarum, and the
traditions connected with the erection of Salisbury Cathedral,
although they furnish no new facts of importance, will be read with
interest; especially on account of the reference they bear to the
enlightened and munificent Bishop Ward. A memoir of that prelate was
published by Dr. Walter Pope, in 1697 (8vo); and some further
particulars of him, as connected with Salisbury, will be found in
Hatcher's valuable History of that City. - J. B.]
THE celebrated antiquity of Stonehenge, as also that stupendious but
unheeded antiquity at Aubury, &c. I affirme to have been temples, and
built by the Britons. See my Templa Druidum. [The essay referred to
was a part of Aubrey's Monumenta Britannica, the manuscript of which
has strangely disappeared within the last twenty yeares. I have given
an account of its contents in the Memoir of Aubrey, already frequently
referred to,(page 87). Aubrey was the first who asserted that Avebury
and Stonehenge were temples of the Britons. He was also the first
person who wrote any thing about the forms, styles, and varieties of
windows, arches, &c. in Church Architecture, and his remarks and
opinions on both subjects were judicious, curious, and original.
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