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Popular or no, however, the apse was sacrificed and the low retro-choir built with the Lady Chapel in the Early English style. Perhaps it was their enthusiastic loveliness which led about 1320 to the rebuilding of the Presbytery and the lovely tabernacle in the back of the wall of the Feretory. When all this was done there remained of the old Norman church only the transepts and the nave.
A 'novum opus, a term applied to some special building, was also in progress." These remarks are of interest, since about the end of the fourteenth century a beautiful wooden reredos was built across the east end of the sanctuary. It was placed just west of the feretory of S. Richard.
For though some of them were dedicated to uses which the reformation necessarily condemned the wholesale destruction of much beautiful workmanship must be regretted by any who are interested in such treasures. In 1538 it was ordered that all shrines should be abolished. This seriously affected Chichester, as the fate of the feretory of S. Richard was involved by the mandate.
It was a small boat, elaborately carved, and the cabin in the center the retreat of the deity was picketed with a cordon of sacred images. The entire feretory was overlaid with gold and crusted with gems. Mentu, his father, had planned one for Ptah, and a noble work it was, quite equal to this, Kenkenes thought. His artistic deliberations were interrupted by an angry tone in the clamor about him.
During his episcopate Richard was canonised, a deputation, sent at great cost to Rome, having succeeded in persuading Urban IV. that his merits and fame deserved an honour which should bring wealth and celebrity to the see in whose cathedral his body was laid; so in 1276 the remains of his body were removed from their tomb and placed at the back of the high altar in a shrine, or feretory, dedicated to him.
The feretory no doubt had a reredos at this point, but what the type of this earlier arrangement may have been it is impossible exactly to tell. But the work which took its place was evidently beautiful, as the many remains still in existence prove to those who may examine them. Walcott gives some interesting details concerning this work.
The bones were enclosed in a splendid coffer with poles attached, and on solemn occasions this 'feretory, besides being carried in procession, was sometimes placed under a tent in the fields. It may, however, be later than the main walls. The lower portion of this wall seems to be of an even earlier type of masonry than the upper.
The report fell in excellently with the Abbot's calculation. No one believed in the Isoult fable save Mald, whom the girl had seen once or twice, and himself; every one talked rather of the Chained Virgin of Saint Thorn. She became an object of pilgrimage. The Abbot grew to call her chamber the feretory; the faithful gave alms, particularly the seamen from Wanmouth.
If the restored retablo over the high altar is disappointing in its sophistication, we have only to pass into the Feretory to discover certain marvellous fragments of the original reredos which are so beautiful that they take away our breath that broken statue of the Madonna and Child, for instance, perhaps the loveliest piece of fourteenth century sculpture to be found in England.
With the reply: "If ye do the things which I command you." And yet again: "The words that I speak unto you:" "They they are spirit; and they are life!" A moment's silence, before all the voices, gathering into one harmony, sent the last versicle ringing through the arches of the choir, and the springing tracery of the feretory, and of the Lady Chapel beyond. "Lord to whom shall we go?
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