Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . inct national style one originally imported from across the It has been already observed that the continental type of church was apsidal, and this was the type the Normansbrought with them to this country. Canterbury, Norwich,Peterborough, and Gloucester still have their apses,though the last named conceals it under later work. Ely,Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, and Worcester,Winchester, Lichfield, Hereford, Exeter, and S. Albans,though now squarely ended, originally finished in an apse,as is proved by the crypts of some and foundatio
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . inct national style one originally imported from across the It has been already observed that the continental type of church was apsidal, and this was the type the Normansbrought with them to this country. Canterbury, Norwich,Peterborough, and Gloucester still have their apses,though the last named conceals it under later work. Ely,Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, and Worcester,Winchester, Lichfield, Hereford, Exeter, and S. Albans,though now squarely ended, originally finished in an apse,as is proved by the crypts of some and foundations thathave been discovered in others. Rochester seems tohave been planned by Gundulph with a square end, weknow not why, and S. Davids cathedral, Romsey,S. Cross, and S. Frideswides at Oxford were also soplanned, and possibly Southwell. All the rest just namedwere once apsidal, but when in later times alterationor re-building was called for the continental apse gaveway to the square end of the Saxon and the Celtbefore him. Plate CLXIV. ELY—The Priors Dc CH. xxviii] ENGLISH ROMANESQUE 253 Originally only the aisles were vaulted. Ely still has Aisles onlyits wooden roof over nave and transept, Winchester overthe transepts, and Peterborough has the old Norman .ceiling with painted decoration. It was left for thesucceeding age to accomplish the vaulting of a nave. One remarkable feature of the English cathedral or Length ofabbey church is its great length, which forms a distinctive chufcLscharacteristic of the national style as compared with thatof France. It is no doubt less marked in the earlierwork than the later, when the choirs of Canterbury andWinchester were lengthened by Prior Ernulf and Bishopde Lucy. But it is not the length of the choirs morethan that of the naves that makes our great cathedralsremarkable. Abroad there are no such long drawn navesin proportion to the church as those of S. Albans, Ely,Norwich, and Winchester. This may be accounted forby the peculiar co
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