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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he canted end of the decoratedchoir is accommodated to the original apsidal plan, andthe eastern piers rest in great measure, though notentirely, on the original Norman foundation. The piersof De Lucys work bear on the walls of the Normancrypt below the original Lady-chapel. The crypt is one of the largest in the kingdom(Fig. 130), built with immensely massive piers, fromwhich spring flat plain transverse ribs, and cross-groiningof rubble work, plastered. It has an ambulatory aislelike the superstructure and its continuation eastwardunder what was the Norman Lady-chapel, is divideddown the centre by a row of columns, carrying cross-groining like the rest. There is no ornament of anykind, and the capitals are as simple as the rest of thework. Winchester had a central tower which like manyNorman towers fell soon after it was built. The recon-struction was begun at once in 1107, and the new toweris beautifully decorated inside with Norman arcadings, CH. xxvii) ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 219
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o bi) MSL^OJL cathedral 220 ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD (ch. xxviiWin- intended to have been seen as a lantern from the church, chcstcr cathedral but now hidden by wooden groining of 1634. Rude as the work is at Winchester the general effectof Walkelyns building is magnificently impressive, andthere are few facades so grand and so satisfactory as thatof the south transept. Ely ^ _ Ely cathedral was begun at the same time as Win- chester by Prior Simeon who was Walkelyns brother, andas was natural there is a certain resemblance between theNorman work at the two places. At Ely one bay of thenave and one of each transept have been absorbed byAlan de Walsinghams octagon, constructed after the fallof the Norman tower in 1321. At Winchester the navehas lost one arch through the setting back 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 transept

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