Saturday, 14 September 2013

Medieval Cathedrals of England



Canterbury Cathedral from Monasticon Anglicanum by William Dugdale 

The Church in England as an institution is rather unique in Europe. Its cathedrals tended to be organised as monasteries rather than as secular cathedrals with  chapters of canons. The Church in England was much reorganised after the Conquest. Many of the seats of bishops were moved to centres of a higher population.

Dorchester-upon-Thames > Lincoln [1072]
Selsey > Chichester [1075]
Sherborne > Old Sarum [Salisbury] [1078]
Elmham > Norwich [1094]


Many of the new Norman lords founded new churches to expiate their sins. Indeed the Conquest had been fought with the Church in Rome on the side of William. Many new ecclesiastical  foundations had their parent in Normandy or France. Many of these new abbeys, priories and the cathedrals were given Norman or French bishops, abbots or priors who were quite efficient at recovering or retaining the properties of their institutions..

Archbishop Lanfranc drew up the rules which governed the life of the monk in monasatic cathedrals. 

Secular Cathedrals

These are those which were ruled by secular canons headed by a dean.

Before the Reformation, the following nine English cathedrals were staffed by ‘secular’ clergy (i.e. clergy who were not members of religious orders): Chichester, Exeter, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, London (St Paul’s), Salisbury, Wells, York. The canons of these Old Foundation cathedrals were also prebendaries – i.e. their income came from individual endowments (‘prebends’), consisting of lands and the right to collect rents, fees and tithes from parishes. The number of prebends ranged from 22 (Wells) to 58 (Lincoln).

The chief dignitaries in each cathedral – the quattuor personae  the 4 ‘cornerstones’ of their spiritual and material fabric – were the dean, the precentor (who ranked next after the dean, the chancellor and the treasurer. Each of these commonly had a deputy (respectively, the sub-dean, the succentor, the vice-chancellor and the sacrist).

Secular cathedral government was new to England. William the Conqueror's curial bishop, St. Osmund, left a written constitution for his cathedral of Salisbury [Old Sarum]. This document provided the model for the 'foursquare' constitution of the English secular cathedrals of the Old Foundation. It was based on the four great dignitaries of a secular cathedral: dean, precentor, chancellor, and treasurer, each of whom had their stalls at the four corners of the choir.

Archdeacons were sometimes also prebendaries and commonly also had stalls in choir next to those of the great officers. A small number of the prebendaries (varying from four to eight, but generally six or seven) were designated as residentiary canons and required to reside at the cathedral for part of the year; these had a share in the common funds of the cathedral in addition to their individual prebends.

It is statistically significant that the three (arch)bishops who opposed Becket, Roger Pont d'Eveque [York], Gilbert Foliot [London], Joscelin [Salisbury] were  (arch)bishops of secular cathedrals; and were possible more beholden for their positions to the king.

Cathedral Priories

These are those which were ruled by monastic orders headed by a prior.

The other ten pre-Reformation English cathedrals were monastic foundations  - cathedral priories. Nine of these were Benedictine priories and one (Carlisle ) was a priory of Augustinian canons. The priories were headed by a prior, with a sub-prior to perform his duties when he was absent (at Durham there was a third and at Canterbury and Winchester a third and a fourth prior). Responsibility for various aspects of the cathedral priory’s life rested with up to twenty-five ‘obedientiaries’ including the sacristan or sacrist, precentor and receiver, and their assistants or subordinates such as the sub-sacrist and the succentor.

In the case of a monastic foundation, the bishop was technically the 'abbot' of the 'monastery', but for day to day purposes his subordinate, the prior was the leader of the monks.


References

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Francis Woodman (1981). The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral. Routledge & Kegan Paul.

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Archive.Org: Memorials of the Cathedral & priory of Christ in Canterbury


Christopher Robert Cheney (1956). From Becket to Langton: English Church Government, 1170-1213. Manchester University Press.

William M. Johnston (2000). Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L. Cathedral Priories: Taylor & Francis. pp. 253–. ISBN 978-1-57958-090-2.

Ben Nilson (2001). Cathedral Shrines of Medieval England. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-85115-808-2.
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Everett U. Crosby (2003). Bishop and Chapter in Twelfth-Century England: A Study of the 'Mensa Episcopalis'. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-521-52184-0. 

Wikipedia References
Stanford E. Lehmberg (2005). English Cathedrals: A History. Hambledon and London. ISBN 978-1-85285-453-9.

Nigel Yates; Paul A. Welsby (1996). Faith and Fabric: A History of Rochester Cathedral, 604-1994. Boydell & Brewer.  ISBN 978-0-85115-581-4.


 

General




Province of Canterbury
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Province of York

The ecclesiastical province of York almost coincides with the Danelaw territory and the Viking ruled areas of England prior to Canute. A large part of it was "harried" (reduced to waste land) by William the Conqueror.

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Francis Drake (1736). Eboracum: or, The history and antiquities of the city of York,  Church of York: Printed by W. Bowyer for the author. pp. 536–.

 Others [Abbeys with mitred abbots, defunct cathedrals and priories]




Northampton — St Andrew's Priory
Cluniac monks: dependent on La Charité founded 1093-1100;
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40225

Map of British Isles showing Dioceses and Abbeys at the Time of the Death of Henry II
R. Foreville, L'Église et la royauté en Angleterre sous Henri II Plantagenêt (1154-1189), Paris, 1943



Anglia Sacra


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James Dugdale (1819). The New British Traveller:. J. Robins & Company. pp. 127–.

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David Charles Douglas (1964). William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England. University of California Press. pp. 329–. ISBN 978-0-520-00350-7.


David Charles Douglas (1964). William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England. University of California Press. pp. 326–. ISBN 978-0-520-00350-7.
...
Bishops and abbots were at once involved more closely than ever before in secular affairs, and in the case of the abbeys a division was normally made between the land of the abbot and that of the monastery, so that the abbot as a great feudal lord became removed from the life of his monks.
...

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De praesulibus Angliae commentarius omnium episcoporum Francis Godwin

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An History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbies, and Conventual Cathedral Churches: Shewing the Times of Their Respective Foundations, and what Alterations They Have Undergone. With Some Descriptions of Their Monuments, and Dimensions of Their Buildings, &c. Together with a Catalogue of Their Abbats, Priors, &c. To which are Annexed, Several Other Lists of the Principals of Divers Monasteries; the Number of Monks at the Surrender, and the Names of the Last Abbats, Priors, &c. who Signed the Same; as Far as They Have Come to Hand. With an Exact Account of Those Religious Men and Women, and Chantry Priests, Receiving Pensions Throughout England and Wales, An. 1553. A Work, Among Other Uses, Necessary to Give Light to Several Charters Sans Date; and Helpful to Such who Shall Treat of Families and Dignified Persons. For Whose Benefit are Subjoined Large Indexes. The Whole Extracted Out of Very Curious Manuscripts, &c. which Have Been Many Years Colecting by the Most Eminent Antiquaries; and Faithfully Published. W. Bowyer. 1718. pp. 1–.


An History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbies, and Conventual Cathedral Churches: Shewing the Times of Their Respective Foundations, and what Alterations They Have Undergone. With Some Descriptions of Their Monuments, and Dimensions of Their Buildings, &c. Together with a Catalogue of Their Abbats, Priors, &c. To which are Annexed, Several Other Lists of the Principals of Divers Monasteries; the Number of Monks at the Surrender, and the Names of the Last Abbats, Priors, &c. who Signed the Same; as Far as They Have Come to Hand. With an Exact Account of Those Religious Men and Women, and Chantry Priests, Receiving Pensions Throughout England and Wales, An. 1553. A Work, Among Other Uses, Necessary to Give Light to Several Charters Sans Date; and Helpful to Such who Shall Treat of Families and Dignified Persons. For Whose Benefit are Subjoined Large Indexes. The Whole Extracted Out of Very Curious Manuscripts, &c. which Have Been Many Years Colecting by the Most Eminent Antiquaries; and Faithfully Published. W. Bowyer. 1719. pp. 1–.


by Haddan, Arthur West, 1816-1873, ed; Stubbs, William, 1825-1901, joint ed; Wilkins, David, 1685-1745


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