PART II.-CHAPTER VI. 



ARCHITECTURE. 



[Ix tliis 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 

 Anbury, &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 ycares. 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. J. B.] 



Here being so much good stone in this countrey, no doubt but that the Romans had here, as well 

 as in other parts, good buildings. But time hath left us no vestigia of their architecture unlesse that 

 little that remains of the castle of Old Sarum, where the mortar is as hard as a stone. Tlus must 

 have been a most august structure, for it is situated upon a hill. When the high walles were 

 standing, flanked at due distances with towers, about seven in all, and the vast keep (arx) in the 

 middle crowned with another high fortification, it must needs afford a most noble view over the 

 plaines. 



(The following account I had from the right reverend, learned, and industrious Seth Ward, Lord 

 Bishop of Sarum, who had taken the paines to peruse all the old records of the church, that had been 

 clung together and untoucht for perhaps two hundred yeares.) Within this castle of Old Sarum, on 

 the east side, stood the Cathedrall church ; the tuft and scite is yet discernable : which being seated 

 so high was so obnoxious to the weather, that when the wind did blow they could not heare the 

 priest say masse. But tliis was not the only inconvenience. The soldiers of the castle and the 

 priests could never agree ; and one day, when they were gone without the castle in procession, the 

 soldiers kept them out all night, or longer. Whereupon the Bishop, being much troubled, cheered 



