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It was Walbran, again, who gave these reasons for assigning the crypt to Wilfrid. Before his time it was thought to have been built during the Roman Occupation. See article by Mr. J. T. Micklethwaite, V.P.S.A., in Archæol. Journ., vol. xxxvii. p. 364. A confessio, it need hardly be said, has nothing to do with a confessional.
Lady-chapels are usually found at the extreme east end of the choir, unless that position was wanted for the resting-place of a local saint. Walbran favoured 1482; Sir Gilbert Scott the middle of the fourteenth century. See the illustration, p. 2. The Builder, February 4th, 1893. They were wooden and covered with lead, and are represented as octagonal.
It was Walbran, again, who drew attention to Leland's phraseology here. The Canon of Stanwick was always in Ripon, but was not considered technically a canon-resident. Perhaps he was not entitled to the special fees for residence. He had, however, full capitular rights. These had been denied to him by Dragley, but were now restored by the Archbishop.
This was pointed out by Walbran. The Transitional or Transition-Norman work at Ripon probably was not all erected during Roger's lifetime, but all of it will, in these pages, be associated with his name. The seal is a reproduction of another of the time of James I., which may have been reproduced from a third of earlier date.
Frisia's debt was remembered in the seventeenth century, when one of the Canons of Antwerp wrote an account of Ripon monastery for his countrymen. Until Walbran drew attention to this passage, the rebuilding was attributed to Thurstan. Especially at St. Wilfrid's shrine. It has been suggested that this was the iron which in Saxon times had been used for the ordeal of fire.
The reason why Sir Gilbert Scott has left or renewed the mullions in some of the windows is probably that he did not wish to disturb the memorial glass. The suggestion was made by Mr. Francis Bond. It is doubtful whether this earlier choir itself can have had a crypt. By Sir Gilbert Scott. By Walbran.
Walbran believed the work to have been executed between 1280 and 1297, and is followed by Sir Gilbert Scott. The buttresses of this east wall were formerly connected at the bottom by a debased battlemented wall, and the space within was used for sheds, the grooves for whose pent roofs can be seen on the sides of the buttresses. Yet it was not intended, apparently, to be filled up.
The square termination of the crypt is in favour of a square presbytery; while his Roman proclivities are perhaps slightly in favour of an apse, and of aisles. Surtees Soc., vol. lxxiv. p. 83. They may, however, mark the site of the domestic buildings and not of the church. Or they may be relics of the Roman Occupation. By Walbran in Proceedings Archæol.
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