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138x200, 1548x2253, 436x634, 581x845, 774x1127 | 1. Castor, Northamptonshire, from the South-West. A Norman Church with alterations and additions of each succeeding style.Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936) 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 whe [...] Keywords: churches, norman architecture, towers, church architecture, greyscale Places shown: Castor; Northamptonshire; England Added: 2010-10-12 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [exterior view]Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936) 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 c [...] Keywords: churches, norman architecture, arches, towers, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England Added: 2010-08-10 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 43. St. Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, with its Normon clerestory [interior view]Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936) 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 some indication that there was a cleres [...] Keywords: churches, interiors, religion, buildings, columns, pillars, arches, pews, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Cliffe; Kent; England Added: 2010-08-10 + S K L R N |
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| 1190x1634, 146x200, 502x689, 595x817, 893x1226 | 46. The South Nave Arcade, Melbourne, Derbyshire, with stilted Norman arcade.Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936) Like the pre-Conquest builders [i.e. before 1066], the Normans knew only one form of arch, th semicicular, with its variants, the segmental (used when the height was limited) and the stilted (46) or h [...] Keywords: churches, arches, norman architecture, gothic architecture, interiors, pews, columns, pillars, greyscale Places shown: Melbourne; Derbyshire; England Added: 2010-08-10 + S K L R N |
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