Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c9.7

c9.7

∗ *Just so when English royal builders set about the building of a church, the artists employed “were the royal masons attached to the palace”; “to the king’s palace were attached a chief royal mason, carpenter, smith, and painter, just as there were a chief butler and cook”; “under the chief master-mason or carpenter a body of journeymen were permanently engaged” (Lethaby, ‘Westminster Abbey and the King’s Craftsmen,’ 1906, p. 112). With the advance of civilization, the craftsmen have been dispensed with, while the butler, the cook, and the clerk remain!*