APPENDIX, No. X.

NOTICE OF THE REMAINS OF AN ANCIENT CHURCH, AND OF CANYNGES' CHAPEL.

In the centre of Bristol stood the celebrated High Cross, and round it were four Churches; three of which are All-Saints', St. Ewen's, and Christ-Church. The name of the fourth is conjectured (from information the source of which we do not at present recollect) to have been St. Andrew's; but it conferred no distinction upon any existing parochial division, nor does an account appear of its revenues in the published extracts from the King's books at the period of Henry the Eighth's appropriation of the wealth of religious houses. However, some interesting remains of the fabric still exist. Their site is the same with that of the several houses standing within three sides of a quadrangle formed by High-street, Winestreet, and Adam and Eve Passage. The crypt of the church is at this moment nearly entire, constructed of massive walls and arches; and the houses

erected thereupon seem to have been raised within part of the outer walls of this ancient edifice, some of its ornamental architecture being still visible in the upper room of one of those houses. The doorway of the kitchen at Mr. Penton's, draper, from its shape and the style of the door itself, was probably an entrance from the crypt to the vestry or some other subordinate room. The front entrance to the crypt is by a descent of steps between the cellars of the Miss Peters' and Mr. Penton, through a passage, each side of which presents remains of the outer door, and the ceiling is formed of remarkably strong wood and stone work, doubtless the flooring of the church porch. At the end of this passage, a pointed arch, inserted in the walling which fills up an arch of sufficient span and strength to have supported the tower, leads to the crypt, presenting a breadth and length between that of the corresponding dimensions of Christ-church and St. John's; and which was restored nearly to its primeval appearance, a few years since, by Messrs. Clift and Sons who cleared away the several modern divisions into cellars, with the design of converting it into a ware-room. A few yards within the entrance on the left hand side is an original aperture leading upward to the vestry door-way above noticed.

Farther onward, a hole is rudely broken near the centre of the arch, for the admission of light from a paved court belonging to Messrs. Savery and Co.'s banking-house. In the south wall, before arriving at the transept, is the stone frame-work of an archway large enough for folding-doors, as leading out of the crypt towards St. Maryport-street. The north arm only remains open, of the transept, or rather of its foundation, supposing the original ground plan of the building to have been that of a cross, and this terminates by a window underneath what was formerly a shop-window of Mr. Oldham, in the centre of which, on the outside, under the street-pavement, is preserved a niche or small oratory, in which probably stood a crucifix, or image of the virgin. We understand that the several occupiers of these remains, have from time to time dug up whole skeletons, and other fragments of mortality, proving that the crypt was formerly used as a cemetery The arches and ornaments of these remains seem to indicate the latter part of the fourteenth century, as the date of their erection.

In Redcliff-street is a chapel, interesting principally from its associations with the name of Canynges. The following description is copied from "The Bris

tol Guide;" to which it is only necessary to add, that the subject of the painting at the west end is the Trinity, with God the Father in the centre! and that the spacious room adjoining the gallery is Canynges' banqueting-room, in which, it is more than probable, that opulent merchant feasted Edward IV. and his courtiers, during their visit to Bristol in 1461.

"A house occupied by Mr. Birtill, in Redcliffestreet, was the residence of William Canynges. It is large, and throughout exhibits an idea of that worthy and opulent merchant's distinguished and elevated station in life. Here is also a chapel which the respectable inhabitant of the house courteously permits the curious stranger to behold. The west end presents a fine religious painting, traced out from the original by a skilful hand, and newly coloured. On the north side is a recess, for containing water, beautifully edged with wood flowering. At the east end a bust of William Canynges; and on the south side a gallery of oak, which leads into a spacious room, at the further part of which appears a smaller one, said to have been his study. From this latter place the celebrated chest, whence the poesies of Rowley came, is supposed to have

been removed to the church where the ingenious Chatterton discovered them. A monumental stone, with the following epitaph, is lately erected; and, as it occupies a conspicuous place in the chapel, it may prove acceptable to our readers:

JOHN HOWARD,

JONAS HANWAY,

JOHN FOTHERGILL, M. D.

Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name be the Glory.

Beneath some ample hallow'd dome

The warrior's bones are laid;
And blazon'd on the stately tomb
His martial deeds display'd.

Beneath an humbler roof we place
This monumental stone,

To names the poor shall ever bless,
And Charity shall own.

To soften human woe, their care
To feel its sigh, to aid its prayer.
Their work on earth not to destroy,
And their reward their Master's joy.