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X. An historical and descriptive Account of Ripon Minster, in the West Riding of the County of York, by the Rev. Robert Darley Waddilove, Dean of Ripon, F.A.S. In a Letter to William Bray, Esq. F.A.S. Treasurer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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The Church of Ripon partakes of the common origin of most others in this kingdom, being founded at the re-establishment of Christianity after the conversion of the pagan Saxons. And we find that Alfred, King of Northumberland, first established a monastery or college of monks at Ripon, from Lindisfarne and Melros, in the year 661.
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page 128 note a See Bedæ Hist. Eccl. 1. iii. c. 25. A full and clear account of this controversy may be seen in Rapin. Hist. Engl. Vol. I. b. iii. p. 71, 72, 2d. edit.
page 128 note b Thus also Eddius: In Hrypis (i. e. Ripon) basilicam polito lapide a fundamentis in terra usque ad summum ædificatam, variis columnis et porticibus suffultam,, in altum erexit et consummavit. Eddii Vita Wilfridi apud Gale, XV. Scriptores, cap. xvii. p. 59.
page 129 note c Eddii Vita Wilfridi, ut supra, cap. xxii. p. 62, et Richardi Prioris Hagulstad. (i. e. Hexham) L. I. c. 3. See also Bentham's Hist, of Ely, p. 22.
page 131 note f These spires were evidently coeval with the towers on which they were raised. The foundation of the Church laid A.D. 1140. The earliest spire usually instanced is that of St. Paul's, London, finished A.D. 1221, of wood and lead, similar to these of Ripon. See Dallaway's Archit. p. 125, and pp. 36, 37. The towers at Ripon are obviously built to support a spire.