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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, and 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 archeology 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 
1486, 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 varicty 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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