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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have attachedhalf-columns, and are elongated as if they were segmentsof aside wall, and the intermediates are circular with spiraland zigzag flutings. A later bay occupies the place of theNorman apse. The details are plain, though the archesof the main arcade are rather richly moulded, an advanceon those of Winchester (Plate CXLIII sup.) which arenot moulded at all. The triforium has a moulded in-cluding order over two sub-arches with a central column.The clerestory windows are very plain and in the choirhave no mural passage. The design of Carilefs work iscontinued in the transept (Fig, 131) where some of theoriginal shafts remain, running up to the top of the wall,showing that though the aisles were vaulted the centralspan was intended to be covered by a wooden roof. The capitals are all of the cushion type, but those ofthe cylindrical columns are eight-sided, which makes themdeficient in projection, and gives them a curious bluntnessof effect. CH. xxvii) ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 225
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Fig. 131. J. A. II. 15 226 ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD (ch. xxvii Durham The navc was built by the next bishop, Ralph Flam- Thenave bard (lOQQ-i 128), and shows an advance in technique onthe earlier work. The simple clerestory of Carilefs build-ing is handsomely replaced by a triplet, with a centralarch opposite the window, and a narrow arch on each sidecarried by colonnettes; the triforium has two includingorders instead of one ; and the main arches are enrichedwith zigzags and other ornaments (Plate CXLVII).They are grouped in double bays, the intermediatecolumns being cylindrical, and fluted or enriched withThe vault chaunellings in chevrons or chequers. The stone vault,which is thoroughly developed with rib and panel con-struction, is supposed by some to have been finishedbefore II33^ I think it more probably dates from the13th century or at the earliest from the time of BishopPudsey (1153-1195) the builder of the Galilee. It hasmany peculiarities. There is a heavy transverse archdivi

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