A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . liance between his Continental and his in-sular dominions than existed between Normandyand any of the neighbouring Continental states,and the result of this is seen in tlie stronglyNorman character, first of English Romanesque,and then of English Gothic (see England, Ar-chitecture of; Gothic Architecture in England). The single fact that the people of Normandycared for vaulting than their Continentalneighbours is of great impcjrtance, else in Northwestern Europe thequestion, how to
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . liance between his Continental and his in-sular dominions than existed between Normandyand any of the neighbouring Continental states,and the result of this is seen in tlie stronglyNorman character, first of English Romanesque,and then of English Gothic (see England, Ar-chitecture of; Gothic Architecture in England). The single fact that the people of Normandycared for vaulting than their Continentalneighbours is of great impcjrtance, else in Northwestern Europe thequestion, how to vault — first, the eastern partof the choir; next, the aisles ; and lastly, thehigh nave — was the most important architec-tural question of all. Throughout the earlyMiddle Ages the effort of the northern build-ers was to close their churches with masonry inone form or another, and as they could not im-itate the vaulting of the Roman structures,which still remained for their models, the ques-tion what to substitute for that system wasthe burning question; but the Normans seem no. FRANCE, PART III.: CATHEDRAL OF BAVELX; WEST FRONT FROJI 112 FRANCE to have had no such ovinnastrring desire fortlie vault, and it reiuaius a i-liaractevistie of tlieNorman ehurclies tliat tluy were built veryeommonly with wooden roofs and withmit eventhe preparatory steps being taken for nuisonryroofs at a later time. Even where the aisleswere vaulted there was no attempt made toraise tlie high vaults of the nave. Tins ten-dency was carried across the Channel ; and at notime did the English builders care for the vaultas did those of Central, Eastern, andSouthern France. In fact, it is inEngland tiiat the Norman Roman-esque reacheil its greatest sjjlendour,and to stuily it rightly the cathe-drals of Peterborough, Winchester,and Saint Albans, witli Walthamabbey and otiier of the conventualchurches, especially in the north,are fully as important to the studentas even the great churches of Cae
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