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.
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