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

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

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...]

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 [...]