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Item pro calce1
viii s. vii d.
1340 liberat' I. Gildene Cementario pro
opere ecclesie xv d.
1341 Item Iohanni Gildene et sociis suis pro
diversis operibus. iii s.
ii d.
Extensive alterations to the Cathedral, including the rebuilding of the
nave, had been determined upon before 1377, and in that or the following
year the foundations of the aisle walls were laid. It is usually held
that the death of Archbishop Simon Sudbury at the hands of the rebels in
1381 was the principal cause of the stoppage of work between 1383 and
the election of Prior Chillenden in 1391. Probably the immediate cause
of the break was the occurrence of a severe earthquake shock on the 21st
of May 1382, for the Treasurers' Accounts show extensive damage to the
monastic buildings:—
Treasurers' Accounts, xv. 2.
1382/3 In expensis circa fabricam ecclesie per manus Iohannis Godnyston
custodis novi
operis lxxvi li x s.
In diversis expensis circa le malthalle hoc
anno de novo faciendo (sic)
cxxiiii li. ii s. viii d. ob.
In plena solucione cariagii meremii per
Thomam Longe per aquam
x li.
Opera infra curiam vii li. iiii s. v d. et tantum causa
terremotus.
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1383/4 Et in reparacione molendini Berthone
cum petris de Folkestone et Carpent' cum
novis bordyis factis vii
li. xvii s. v d.
Et in reparacione Capelle Infirmarie ex parte
boriali per terremotum
destructe
xi li. xiiii s. vi d.
Et in reparacione lotorii2 prioris et lotorii claustri
et muri
claustri ab ostio Capituli usque ostium
dormitorii per terremotum
destructi vii li. xix s.
Et in novo tecto facto ultra martirium beati Thome
cum plumbo empto in
partem solucionis3 x li. x s. v d.
Et in nova clausura ferrea sub magnis organis4
per manus Iohannis
Godenyston
xxxi li. xx d.
During the building of the nave between 1391 and 1400 Master Henry
Yevele, the King's Chief Mason, seems to have been retained by Prior
Chillenden, and his name occurs in the only surviving Prior's account of
this period:—
Prior's Account Roll, xvii. 4.
1396/7 Fabrica Ecclesie In xx latomis et iii leggeres (5) et iiii
laborariis
1 Lime
2 Lavatory.
3 In part payment.
4 Iron screen beneath the great organs.
5 Layers or setters of stone. |