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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re is a heavy transverse archdividing one double bay from another and betweenthem are two quadripartite vaults with no transverse ribto divide them. The same plan obtains in the transept(Fig. 131). I am not aware of another instance of thisarrangement. The great transverse arches are pointed, but they aresegmental : the height being given by the side walls andthe round arch of the central tower, a pointed arch couldonly be got by dropping the springing. This againimplies that the present vault was not the coveringoriginally contemplated. Canon Greenwell, Durham Cathedral^ 1897, p. 36. He quotes Symeonof Durham, who says the monks completed the nave between the death ofFlambard in 1128, and the succession of Galfrid Rufus in 1133. Eo temporenavis ecclesiae Dunelmensis, monachis operi instantibus, peracta est. Symeon,continuation Cap. I. Canon Greenwell argues that at the death of Flambardthere was nothing but the vault left for them to do, but this seems a largeassumption. Plate CXLVTl
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DURHAM—The Nave Plate CXLVITI

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