. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . in late JSormaii times upon the earlier belfry windows are generally double, and dividedby a shaft. Eaely Norman Turrets are very rarely to be metwith, but there are good examples at St. Albans; ata later period they are frequent as stair-turrets, buthave generally lost the original roof or capping: some-times, as at Iffley, and Christchurch, Hampshire, theydie into the tower below the corbel-table; in other in-stances, as at Eishops Cleeve (64) and Bredon, they arecarried up above the parapet and terminate in pinnacles;they ar
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . in late JSormaii times upon the earlier belfry windows are generally double, and dividedby a shaft. Eaely Norman Turrets are very rarely to be metwith, but there are good examples at St. Albans; ata later period they are frequent as stair-turrets, buthave generally lost the original roof or capping: some-times, as at Iffley, and Christchurch, Hampshire, theydie into the tower below the corbel-table; in other in-stances, as at Eishops Cleeve (64) and Bredon, they arecarried up above the parapet and terminate in pinnacles;they are sometimes roundand sometimes square. The Round Towers whichare so abundant in Norfolkand Suffolk (65) are fre-quently of the Normanperiod; some may be earlier,and others are certainlylater; they are often so en-tirely devoid of all orna-ment or character, that itis impossible to say to whatage they belong. The towersthemselves are built of flint,and are built round to suitthe material, and to savethe expense of the stonequoins for the corners which. 65. Little Saxham, Tower. are necessary for square towers, and which often may 84 NORMAN BUTTRESSES, not have been easy to procure in districts where build-ing-stone has all to be imported. The same cause ac-counts for the frequent and long-continued use in thesame districts of flat bricks or tiles for turning thearches over the doors and windows, which are either ofEoman manufacture, or an imitation of the same form. The Buttresses of this style were at first merely flatprojections (66) wholly devoid of ornament, and these
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