Identifier: byzantineromanes02jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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is handsomely arcadedoutside, and the arcades are carried on to the east endwhich has been reconstructed on the old foundations(Fig. 138) and on a design more or less conjectural^ The sculptured capitals of this church are interesting Normanexamples of what the early Norman artists could achieve. capiSb^They are well proportioned, of a convex or cubical shape,and the carving takes the form of surface ornament asit did in Byzantine work. Some of them have figures ofanimals ; others simple attempts at foliage, quite inartis-tically arranged; the best are covered with ornamenthalf-way between foliage and strap-work. They havevery little ordered arrangement such as classic example 1 History of the Church of S. Peter, Northampton, by the Rev. R. M.Serjeantson. His book contains in an appendix Sir Gilbert Scotts reportand account of the various stages of construction and reconstruction. Thechurch is illustrated in Sharpes Churches of the Nene Valley. 240 ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD (ch. xxviii
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7^ \. 1X3 1 /o,7 Fig. 138. CH. xxviii) ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 241 would have taught. In the capital shown in this Normanillustration (Fig. 139) there is to be sure a leaf to ^*^p^^mark the angle, and the beasts are placed symmetrically,but the scroll-work wanders loosely over the surface, andthe rudimentary idea of vegetable growth is ignored, for

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