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Rh liK. VI. Ch. II. SAXON ARCHITECTURE. 127 of Edmer, the singer, who saw it before it was destroyed by fire in 1067. Like the German churches of that age, it seems to have had two apses. The principal one, towards the east, was appropriated to the clergy ; while the western one belonged to the laity, or, as we should now say, was devoted to parochial purposes. Its walls and structure probably resembled the nave of Mortier en Der (Woodcut No. 376), or the Basse QSuvre at Beauvais (Woodcut No. 374) — plain piers supporting round arches below, and small circular-headed windows in a plain wall above. 565. Saxon Doorway at Monkwearmouth. (From a Photograph.) Outside the original chiuvli of St. Augustine to the eastward — at what distance we unfortunately are not told — Cuthbert, the second archbishop, about the year 750 erected a circular church, " as a bap- tistery, and in order that it might serve as the burying-place of future archbishops ;"i thus combining the two rites in a ceremonial church, apart from the basilica, exactly as was done in Italy during the ' "Qui ecclesiam in orientali parte majoris ecclesise eidem pene contiguam in honore Beati -lohannis Baptistae fab- ricavit; ut et Baptisteria et examina- tiones Jiidiciorium, etc. — et Archiepis- coporum corpora in ea sepelirentur." — " Anglia Sacra," vol. ii. p. 75.