Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield / A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the / Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less

APPENDIX I

Fig. C. A Counterseal. Twelfth century. Sulphur cast, 1¾ in. A church, with central tower, a cross at each gable end, and two tall round-headed arches in the wall, standing on a ship of antique shape, with curved prow and stern, each terminating in a bird's head, on the sea. In a field over the tower, the inscription: NAVIS ECCL'IE. On the left a wavy estoile of six points, on the right a crescent.

Fig. D. Later Seal. Thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Sulphur cast from imperfect impression. About 3 × 1 ⁷/8 in.

Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew standing on a lion couchant guardant, in the right hand a knife, his emblem, in the left hand a book. Overhead, a trefoil canopy pinacled and crocketed. On each side in the field a tree on which is slung by the strap a shield of arms: England.

Fig. E. A Counterseal. Thirteenth century. Sulphur cast from chipped impression. 1¼ × 7/8 in.

Pointed oval: the impression of an antique oval intaglio gem. An eagle displayed.

Fig. F. Common Seal of the Prior and Convent. A.D. 1533. Bronze-green: fine, showing marks of the pins or studs employed to keep the two sides of the matrix in proper position, 2-1/8 in.

Obverse. St. Bartholomew, seated on a carved throne (somewhat resembling the throne on the obv. of the great seal of Edward I), in the right hand a book, in the left hand a knife. In the field, on the left a crescent, on the right an estoile, each between two groups of three small spots (the whole representing the heavens). Thirteenth century style of work.

Fig. G. Reverse of the same seal. A church, with central spire, a cross at each gable end, masoned walls imitating ashlar-work, and traceried windows, standing on a ship with a castle at each end, that on the left pointed, that on the right square, on the sea.

In the field at the sides, the inscription:

NAVIS ECCL'E. CREDIMVS : ANTE : DEVM :
PROVEHI : PER : BARTHOLOMEVM.

Beaded borders. ("Vetusta Monumenta," vol. ii, pl. xxxvi.)

Fig. H. Seal ad Causas. Fourteenth century. Sulphur cast from imperfect impression. 2-3/8 × 1½ in.

Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew standing on a corbel, in the right hand a knife, in the left hand a long cross.

Fig. I. Seal of the New Foundation for Preaching Friars, by Queen Mary. A.D. 1556-1558. 2½ x 1-5/8 in.

Pointed oval: St. Bartholomew, standing, with nimbus, in the right hand a knife, in the left hand a book, under a dome-shaped baldachin or canopy in the style of the Renaissance, supported on two pilasters. In the exergue a floral ornament.

Fig. K. Obverse. St. Bartholomew, full-length, surrounded with radiance, lifting up the right hand in benediction, in the left hand a long cross.

COMM ... SIGILLV HOSPITAL'
APOSTOLI.

Fig. L. Reverse. A shield of arms: City of London.

In the field, the inscriptions: 1[66]1 (?). INSIGNIA LONDO.

Background diapered with wavy branches of foliage.

... EST SMITHFIELD ET HOSPITALI ...

APPENDIX II

APPENDIX III

APPENDIX IV

Specification of the instrument after the above-mentioned work was done.

In 1886 the organ was purchased from St. Stephen's, Walbrook, for St. Bartholomew-the-Great, where a new case was made for it, the original being retained at St. Stephen's, for the sake of the carving, attributed to the famous Grinling Gibbons. Several alterations were then made in the instrument to adapt it to its new position, and at the present time the specification is as follows:

INDEX

• Ambulatory, 50.
• Anthony, Francis, 52, and note.
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• Bartholomew Fair, 7, and note.
• Bells, 28.
• Belmeis, Bishop Richard de. 5.
• Black Friars, Dominican Order of, 13, and note.
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• Canonbury House, 43 (note).
• Canons Regular of St. Augustine, 6, and note.
• Choir, 40.
• Clerestory, 44.
• Cloister, 58.
• Crypt, 57.
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• Dimensions of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, 84.
• —— of St. Bartholomew-the-Less, 71.
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• Early English columns, 33.
• —— gateway, 26.
• Exterior of the Church, 25, et seq.
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• Font, 39.
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• Grindal, Bishop Edmund, 16.
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• History of the Foundation, 3, et seq.
• Hogarth, William, 39.
• "Horseshoe" arches, 40.
• Hospital, 63, et seq.
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• Lady Chapel, 10, 55.
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• Monasteries in London at the Dissolution, 13.
• Monuments:
  • Anthony, 52.
  • Chamberlayne, 48.
  • Freshwater, 40.
  • Mildmay, 54.
  • Savory, 57 (note).
  • Smalpace, 49.
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• Nave, surviving bay of, 33.
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• Oriel Window (Prior Bolton's), 10, 43.
• Organ, Specifications of, 80-82.
• —— Screen, 33.
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• Porches:
  • West, 26.
  • North, 28.
  • South, 39.
• Priors, list of, 77-78.
• Priory Buildings, conjectural plan of, 14.
• —— Desecration of, 17-20.
• Pulpit, 48.
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• Rahere:
  • Early life, 3.
  • Conversion, 4.
  • Vision and vow, 4.
  • Realized in the Smithfield Foundation, 5.
  • Charter of privileges granted, 6.
  • Death, 8.
  • Tomb, 45.
• Rectors, list of, 78.
• Restoration of the Church, 20-22.
• Rich, Sir Richard, 12, 16.
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• St. Bartholomew-the-Less and the Hospital, 64, et seq.
• Savory, Sir Borradaile, Memorials to, 27, 48, 57 (notes).
• Seals of the Convent and Hospital, 73-77.
• Services at the Church, 30.
• Smithfield, 5.
• Stone Screen (ancient), 38.
• Surrender of the Priory to Henry VIII, 10.
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• Tower (ancient central) and arches, 35.
• —— (17th century western), 27.
• Transepts:
  • North, 35.
  • South, 38.
• Triforium, 43.
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• Vestments, Inventory of, 79.
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• West Front, 26.

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