it asa 
Roman empires, were undoubtedly ignorant of the art of con- 
ftructing edifices of lime and ftone; it muft therefore have been 
from the inhabitants of the fouthern parts of Europe that they ob- 
tained that knowledge, and the Grecian and Roman ftyles of 
_ archite€ture of the middle ages became diffufed through the weft 
of Europe prior to the ninth century; as well from the zeal of 
the Greek and Roman miffionaries, as from the fpirit of pil- 
grimages to the holy land. 
As early as the” middle of ‘the feventh century the Greek 
architeQure was introduced among the Anglo Saxons by Greeks, 
who followed Theodorus, Archbifhop of Canterbury. By the 
intereft of Theodorus thefe Grecians eftablifhed a fchool or aca- 
demy at Creekelade, or Greekeflade, in Wiltthire, and ereéted that 
church in the Grecian architeQure about the year 670*, refem- 
bling which the church of Hexham was founded by Wilfred anno 
6744, and the church of Weremouth by Benedi& in 675t. How- 
ever it doth not appear that the Grecian and Roman archite¢ture 
were common in Britain prior to the eftablifhment of the academies 
at Cordova and Otranto. For about the year 759 an academy 
was eftablifhed at Cordova by the Saracenic Pr.sce Ahdoulrahman, 
for the ftudy of agriculture, geometry, aftronomy, architeCture 
and phyfic, by profeffors brought from Greece, Conftantinople, 
Egypt and the Eaft; which academy, during the —_ and tenth 
s centuries, 
* Grofs’s Antiq. vol..1.  Godwin’s Eng. Bifhops, page 54, 558, 560. 
+ Godwin’s Eng. Bifhops, p. 560. 
+ Grofs’s Antiq. vol. 1, 
