 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1879 - 356 pàgines
...Britain resembled the humble model of Lindisfarne, where, about 652, St. Aidan's successor built a church after the manner of the Scots, not of stone, but of hewn oak, and thatched it with reeds (Bede, lib. iii. c. 25). Laestingau only in process of time received a stone... | |
 | Ebenezer Josiah Newell - 1895 - 456 pàgines
...British churches were generally wooden. Bede mentions that the cathedral of Lindisfarne was built ' after the manner of the Scots, not of stone, but of hewn oak,' and was covered with reeds. It was dedicated to St. Peter, not, however, by Finan, its founder, but... | |
 | Thomas Benjamin Willson - 1903 - 436 pàgines
...Bede, in Eccles. Hist. III. 25, describes the church built by Finan in Lindesfarne as being made " after the manner of the Scots . . . not of stone but of hewn oak and covered with reeds." Maclear (" The Celts ") says that the monastic churches in early times were... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1853 - 544 pàgines
...of St. Martin, at Whitehorn, was built, says Bede, of stone, an unusual method among the Britons."! In 627, Paulinus built a large and noble church of...the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, and that ho crossed the sea, and brought back with him masons to build him a church 'in the Roman style,' which... | |
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Nevertheless," says Bede, " he made it after the manner of the Scots, not of stone, but of hewn oak." Surely this exception, " after the manner of the Scots," would prove rather that the manner of the English was different. 