Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (page 2/2)

[picture: 1. Castor, Northamptonshire, from the South-West.  A Norman Church with alterations and additions of each succeeding style.]

1. Castor, Northamptonshire, from the South-West. A Norman Church with alterations and additions of each succeeding style.

Early Norman [church] towers sometimes recieved an additional stage within a brief space. Castor (Fig. 1) is a magnificent example of this, and here the upper stage was certainly not contemplated when the tower was first built. In any case, tower-building was slow work; the upper stages are often much later in style than the lower. Indeed, some Norman [...] [more...]

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[picture: Title Page]

Title Page

THE MEDIÆVAL STYLES
OF THE ENGLISH
PARISH CHURCH [more...]

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[picture: 43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view]]

43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view]

The treatment of the eaves illustrates a very characteristic, though by no means invariable Norman feature, namely, the corbel table, a series of prjecting stones at intervals, carrying a continuous course of long flat stones, forming a fine cornice and giving the eaves greater projection (38. 43, 45). The corbels are generally carved into grotesques [...] [more...]

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[picture: 43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view]]

43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view]

Clerestories.—Those Norman churches which were built with aisles seem all to have had clerestories. I do not know of a Norman nave with original aisles without [...]

[picture: 114. Village Churches of the Decorated Period: Whissendine, Rutland.]

114. Village Churches of the Decorated Period: Whissendine, Rutland.

St. Andrew’s Church, Whissendine, Rutland; It dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, and has a 100-foot tall tower.

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