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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of the westfront of the nave by Bishop Edyngton in the middle ofthe 14th century. But originally both cathedrals seem tohave had 13 arches in the nave, and four in the transepts.At both churches the transepts have aisles on both sides,both ended with a short choir and an apse, thoughWinchester alone had an ambulatory round it. There iseven some ground for supposing that Ely had the samegallery from triforium to triforium, occupying the last bayof the transept. Abbot Simeon however, who was Sy when he went toEly in 1081, did not live to carry his walls very high, andthe cathedral is in a later style of Norman than hisbrothers church at Winchester. Probably the only partof Simeons work is the lower storey of the transepts(Plate CXLIV), which is in an earlier style than the upperpart; but even there the capitals of the great roundcolumns (Fig. 141 in/.) show an attempt at decorationbeyond anything to be seen at Winchester. AfterSimeons death in 1093 ^^ abbot was appointed by Plate CXLIV
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ELY—North Transept CH. xxvii) ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 221 William II, and the office remained vacant till it was Elyfilled by Abbot Richard in iioo, who finished the easternpart, which is now superseded by a later building. Thenave and the Norman stages of the western tower werecompleted by Bishop Riddell (1174-1189). The greater part of the nave and transepts is still ofthe original building, but the eastern limb was re-builtand prolonged by Bishop Hugh de Northwold between1229 and 1254 in the Early Pointed style, when thenational square east end took the place of the Normanapse. The Norman pillars of the nave have shafts run-ning up to the roof to mark the bays, but are alternatelycomposed of clustered columns, and mono-cylindricalcolumns with small shafts attached. This gives anagreeable variety to the piers, which would, if all alike,have been monotonous. At the west end is a secondtransept of later Norman work, with a great tower in themiddle of the west end of the nave; and th

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