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     Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 122  2002  page 139
Patrixbourne Church: Medieval Patronage, Fabric and History. By Mary Berg

twelfth Century’ in Art and Patronage in the English Romanesque, ed. S. Macready and F. H. Thompson (London, 1986), pp. 52 and 57, P1. XXV.
  13 Sanders refers to Maud and Joan as Ingeiram’s sisters, but it is clear from medieval sources that they were his daughters because their husbands are reported to be sons-in-law.
  14 W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, 6 vols. (London, 1840), 4 (ii), p. 1012. Boudet, ‘Le Prieuré de Beaulieu’, p. 2 (see note 39).
  15 Comparing the church with the celebrated Anglo-Saxon one at Barton-on-Humber, Kahn suggests that the position of the tower projecting from the middle of the south aisle indicates that the original plan was similar. The lower two stages of the tower at Barton have been dated to the latter part of the tenth century.
  16 H. M. andJ. Taylor,Anglo-Saxon Architecture, 3 vols (Cambridge, 1965-78), 1, p. 56. Aldington, Cheriton, Lyminge, St Margaret’s at Cliffe, West Stourmouth and Willesborough are among those identified. For Whitfield see also, ‘A Victorian photograph of Whitfield Church (pre-restoration)’, Archaeologia Cantiana, Cxx (2000), 381-5.
  17 Called the Isaak chapel by Hasted, and also the chapel of Saint John. The Isaacs were the manorial lords of Hode and Howletts from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries.
  18 Livett suggests that originally a single sloping roof covered both the nave and the aisle and that the aisle wall was later raised.
 
19 Exceptions to this rule are St Margaret’s at Cliffe where the door is at the west end, and Cintheaux where the door is towards the west end of the south aisle.
  20 For example, Barfreston, Castle Hedingham (Essex) and St Dunstan, Canterbury.
  21 Until the mid-nineteenth century there was an additional, rectilinear window in the centre of the south aisle wall but this was part of a nineteenth-century programme of alterations.

 22 For example, Barfreston, Castle Hedingham (Essex) and Brabourne (the last in the north rather than the south wall).
  23 This view is not supported by Livett who thought the arches contemporary with the north aisle.
  24 Permission was given in 1875 to ‘raise the chancel’. However, the roof level seems largely unaltered, implying that the floor was raised.
  25 The top of the arch has been repaired. The current church architect, Andrew Clague, suggests that one of the reasons for building the Bifrons Chapel may have been to provide structural support for the arch. In that case, it is possible that there was a buttress on the north side, which was removed when the north aisle was built in the nineteenth century.
  26 A. W. Clapham likens the Irish gables, which he calls pediments, to Anglo-Saxon work rather than Anglo-Norman in Romanesque Architecture in Western Europe (Oxford, 1936), p. 155.
  27 Romanesque parallels for this include: a portrait of Thomas Becket, Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.5.5, fo. 130v: and work commissioned by Henry de Blois (British Museum Catalogue nos. 277a and b).
  28 Kahn, D., Canterbury Cathedral and its Romanesque Sculpture (London, 1991), p. 21, suggests that these are apostles. Musset agrees, but Philip McAleer, ‘The Significance of the West Front of Rochester Cathedral’, Archaeologia Cantiana, XCIX (1983), 139-158 (at 141) writes that the lintel comprises eight interlocked stones which do not quite fit into place implying that it may have been reused and may indeed have had twelve figures originally.
  29 There is some dog-tooth work on the water tower at Canterbury Cathedral dated to
1150-60 by Kahn, p.73.

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