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IllSTOllV OF
AUCIllTECTUllE
Book I.
tliL-ii
sucpcss'ivo leJftns;
and it is cvi.leiit tliat tlic d.urclies attacliccl to tlium were tlic niosj
"
'i'lie six jjiiiicipal of tlicse were. St.
Gennaiii's, in Cornwall; Col-
cliester, in Essex
;
Tewkes-
biirv, in Gloucestershire
;
St.
decorated
parts, as respected their
architecture.
Fig. 181
Frideswide and St. .Alhan's,
already mentioned ;
and Glas.
tonbury, in Somersetshire.
King selects the western por-
tion of Tewkesbury as the
grandest in England for eHeci
and extent. The characteris-
tics of Aiiijlo- Saxon Ariliitcc-
ture are detailed in tlie follow-
ing para,::;raph.
390. Arches.

.Always se-
micircular, often i)lain ;
some-
times decorated with a variety
of mouldings on the sofite as
well as on the face, the former being often entirely occupied by them. They are found
double, triple, or quadruple, each springing from two columns, and generally cased with a
difFerent moulding, which is frequently double, thus
making six or eight concentric circles of them
;
and
as each of them projects beyond that luuler it, a
moulding is placed under them, generally the same as
that used upon tlie face. {Scejir/. 18i.) Culnmus.

Single, cylindrical, hexagonal or octagonal, on sciuare

])liiiths
;
very few diameters in height. Shafts often
ornamented with spiral or fluted carving, with lo-
zenge, herring-bone, zigzag, or hatched work. (7-V(/.
182.
)
Capitiil.1.
Indented with fissures of diHerent
lengths and forms, and in diHerent directions. The
divisions thus formed are variously slojJed off, or
hollowed out towards the top. (See the two exam-
ples, /)^. 18:5., from the conventual church at Ely.)
Occasionally the capitals have rude imitations of
some member of a Grecian order, as in the crypt at
Lastringhain in Yorkshire, where volutes are used.
{Fiy. 184.) In their ornaments much variety is dis-
jilaved, but the oi)i)osite
ones are mostly alike.
Windows.

Semicircular-headed, extremely narrow
in jiroiJortion to their height, being sometimes not
more than six or eight inches wide to a heiglit
of more than three feet, and si)layed
or bevelled
otr on the inside through the whole thickness of
the wall. Walls.

Of very great thickness, and

without any buttresses externally.
Masonry of solid construction. CtiUnys tuid Roofs.

Almost always open timbering. In crypts, as at York, Winchester, and a few other
FlR. 183. I CAPITAI.S, CONV AI. CHURCH,
l-'i{{. ISl. CAPirAL FRUU l.A
places, vaulting is to be found.
Ornaments, except in cajiitals, in arches and on
shafts of columns are very sparingly employed. (See Norman Ornaments also, in
the following section on Norman Architecture,
par. 307.)
Plans, Rectangular
and parallelogrammic ;
being usually divide.! into a body and chancel, separated by an
ornamented arch The chancel sometimts of ea'ial, and sometimes of less breadth than