APN WSl Q VUuL aT TNE'S: 
foolishly fancied it a secure passport 
to heaven, if they lost their lives in 
defence of the building. 
their province to protect Christian 
pilgrims against the Saracens, and 
as they were originally instituted 
and stationed at the church of the 
holy Sepulchre, it seems extremely 
probable that they would imitate 
that structure, when they were af- 
terwards distributed in companies 
over Europe, and when they had 
occasion to erect a new. church. 
This appears actually to have been 
the case with those that settled in 
England ; for we have already seen 
that they had circular churches at 
several places,* and some of those 
were dedicated to the holy Sepul- 
chre, Sanctum Sepulchrum. Per- 
haps the most ancient of these is 
‘that at Cambridge. 
ry 
Architectural Nomenclature. 
In Britton’s architectural anti- 
quities, part Vi. there is a history 
of Maimsbury abbey church, and 
the author gives the following table 
of terms, &c. to characterize the 
various styles which prevail in ancient 
English ee 
As it was 
989 
In this essay, and in the subse- 
quent parts of the present work, I 
shall find it necessary to employ 
some precise terms, calculated to 
characterize the various styles of 
that ancient architecture, which pe- 
culiarly belongs to Great Britain, 
and of which we are endeavouring 
to investigate the history and ascer- 
tain the principles. The usual com- 
mon-place terms of Saxon and Go- 
thic, are not only extremely vague, 
but, from indiscriminate application, 
are completely nugatory. It is 
time this was remedied; and itis 
rather a reproach to antiquarian li- 
terature, that such improper and 
imperfect words should have so long 
continued in general use. ‘Though 
almost every writer, on this subject, 
reprobates the latter term as applied 
to architecture, yet all continue to 
use it, asif it were criminal to core 
rect inaccuracy, or oppose an ab. 
surd custom, that would be: ** more 
honourable in the breach, than in 
the observance.” ‘Though I am not 
disposed to employ an imperious 
dictatorial tone, to enforce the ne- 
cessity of the following arrangement 
and classification, yet I am persuad- 
ed that every one who feels the ne- 
cessity of rendering language une- 
quivocal, of being definite and pre- 
cise 
“ The German writer of ‘ Voyage en Sicile & dans la Grande Gréce ad- 
hie al Abbé Winckelman ,Lausanne, 8vo. 1773,” 
of St. Sepulchre at Brindisi, the ancient Brundusium. 
gives this description of a church 
‘On donne l’Eglise du St. 
Sepulcre pourun temple antique ; c’etoit une rotonde; cet edifice n’est point du 
bon tems de |’architecture: 
sa forme n’est pas parfaitement circulaire &iln’y a 
point de portique a l’entrée, et il decrit un demi circle différent, qui ne fait point 
eurps avec le reste du batiment ; 
ce qui lui donne une irregularité désagreable. 
L’on reconnoit aussile mauvais gofit du tems de la decadence des arts aux orne- 
mens de l’ancienne porte qui est murée aujour d*hui. 
Cet edifice est vouté & 
soutenu entierement par des colonnes de marbre.’ 
“ This person, who was over head and ears in Roman and Grecian antiquities, 
would not have thought it worth his while to have taken notice 
of an ancient Chris- 
tian temple, as this is no doubt, had he not ‘mistaken it for a Pagan one. The 
oem answers exactly to our church of the holy Sepuichre at Cambridge.’’ 
British Museum, Cole’s MSS. vol. I. p. 46 
