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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< Q CH. xxvii) ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 223 of those noticed in preceding chapters at Tournai in NorwichBelgium, and in Normandy. The same stern simplicityreigns here as at Winchester and Ely : the capitals areof the plain cushion form, and the arches are little morethan square-cut openings through the walls, which seemsa survival of the Saxon method. The wide soffits thusformed give space for several attached shafts with cushioncapitals set side by side, both below in the arcade andabove in the triforium. The exterior of Durham, with its three massive towers, Durhamits enormous bulk, and its superb position on a rockypromontory round which the river Wear sweeps in agrand wooded defile, makes perhaps the most impressivepicture of any cathedral in Europe (Plate CXLVI). Terror of the Danes drove away the monks in 875from Lindisfarne, where S. Aidan had been established byKing Oswald, and where S. Cuthbert in 684 had built amonastery of rude huts of timber and earth, within anenclosure

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