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and all the rest of the tragic happenings, be indeed all moonshine, 

 or rather limelight and stage effect, their elimination would serve 

 no purpose. 



The case of the tower that Archbishop Chicherley built, however, 

 and the tradition attached to it, is altogether different, since to 

 remove the calumny from the builder, as we are bound to do, is 

 not to perceptibly diminish the interest in the building ; for so 

 intimately has Lambeth been associated with events of importance 

 in England's history, so constantly, arid of necessity, have the 

 Primates played a great part in these, that it is unnecessary to 

 work up a fictitious emotion by the aid of incorrect or uncor- 

 roborated assertions. 



The Water Tower, to give it its right name, has claims upon the 

 attention of the student of history and archaeology that are 

 independent of any supposed connection with Lollardism ; to 

 these we shall return later. 



The Computus Bellevorum, or steward's accounts, were very 

 regularly kept at Lambeth, and they show that Chicherley restored, 

 if he did not actually rebuild, the whole of the Great Hall, which 

 many years later was certainly carefully reconstructed by Juxon, 

 on the lines laid down by his predecessor. But if Archbishop 

 Chicherley was thus a great builder, one who has largely left his 

 mark upon Lambeth, Cardinal Morton, who became Primate in 

 'I486, and Lord Chancellor of England in the following year, 

 was yet a greater. He it was who erected the massive and 

 stately Gatehouse which is the most remarkable feature of 

 the Palace buildings. Of its kind there is no finer or more 

 characteristic example of Tudor architecture in England. It is 

 built of red brick, with stone quoins and dressings, and must have 

 been one of the earliest erections of the kind in this country, for, 

 up to the time of the fifth or sixth Henry, stone, or timber with 

 an admixture of brick, was exclusively used in buildings in the 

 southern part of the island. 



There seems to have been no attempt at consistency or unity of 

 design in the several additions made at various dates at Lambeth ; 

 and there was none in the material of which they were constructed. 

 This variety makes for picturesqueness. One cannot, however, 

 fail to note that the rough grey stone of the Water Tower has 

 received no added charm and dignity from age, whereas the smooth 



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