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The Latin Monastic Buildings of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

A. W. Clapham
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The church of the Holy Sepulchre and the site of the Holy Places is so vast a subject, both historically and architecturally, that only a lifelong acquaintance with its records and an intimate knowledge of every detail of its structure could excuse another attempt to trace its development. I propose, therefore, only to deal with the church so far as a sketch of its history and development form a necessary preface to the study of the Norman priory, which housed the canons during the brief but extremely interesting period of the Latin kingdom. The monastic buildings have not hitherto been thoroughly explored, owing to the difficulties raised while they were under the Moslem rule; I therefore took the exceptional opportunities which I had during my five months' residence in Jerusalem, with the British army there, to examine, with my friend Mr. E. G. Newnum, every part of the site.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1921 , pp. 3 - 18
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1921

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References

page 3 note 1 Vincent, H. and Abel, F. M., Jèrusalem—Recherches de Topographie, etc., vol. ii (Jérusalem nouvelle), Paris, 1914Google Scholar.

page 3 note 2 Jeffery, G., The Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, 1919Google Scholar.

page 4 note 1 The plans, figs. 1, 2, 3, are reproduced from the work of PP. Vincent and Abel and are reconstructions for which those authors are responsible. Though the detail is, of course, often conjectural, they may be taken to represent with sufficient accuracy the general lay-out of the buildings on the site at the various dates shown on them.

page 6 note 1 Yahia ibn Said, Vincent and Abel, op. cit., ii, 246.

page 8 note 1 A late fifteenth-century German woodcut showing the complete tower is reproduced in the R. I. B. A. Journal, 1911, 241.

page 10 note 1 R.I.B. A. Journal, 1910, 129. The latest examples of this motif with which I am acquainted are in the sixteenth-century gates of David and St. Stephen at Jerusalem (Bab Nebi Daoud and Bab Sitti Mariam).

page 11 note 1 See the illustration in H. Salachi, Manuel d'art musulman — l'architecture, p. 98.

page 11 note 2 Palestine Pilgrims Text Soc, vol. 17, Theodoricus of Würzburg.