An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . the time of William Rufus,but it has much of the appearance of the supposed Saxon buildings. The late Dr. Raine, of Dur-ham, has shewn by his verycareful investigations that thechurches of Monks Wearmouthand Jarrow were rebuilt by themonks of Durham after chief authority for this isthe Chronicle of Symeon ofDurhamc. The church ofMonks Wearmouth could nothave been built on the old site,for in the accounts of the Houseat Wearmouth for the year1360, the old church is men-tioned incidentally as used fora barn or storehouse d. The dateo
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . the time of William Rufus,but it has much of the appearance of the supposed Saxon buildings. The late Dr. Raine, of Dur-ham, has shewn by his verycareful investigations that thechurches of Monks Wearmouthand Jarrow were rebuilt by themonks of Durham after chief authority for this isthe Chronicle of Symeon ofDurhamc. The church ofMonks Wearmouth could nothave been built on the old site,for in the accounts of the Houseat Wearmouth for the year1360, the old church is men-tioned incidentally as used fora barn or storehouse d. The dateof the present church musttherefore be shortly after 1075,when the monk Aldwin and histwo associates were placed thereby Walcher, bishop of Durham:and when the bishop saw themonks wishful to rebuild thechurch itself and the ruinedmonastic dwelling-places, hegave to them the vill of Jarrowwith its appendages, viz. Preston, &c. The rebuilding ofJarrow was subsequent to thatof Wearmouth, and if we assignthe date of 1085 to it, we cannot be far wrong. Tower of the supposed Saxon Wearmouth, Durham, &.i>. 1075. » Ed. Bedford, p. 201. d In veteri ecclesia est j tassa ordei decimalis villarum de Weremuth etFulwell. Inventories of Jarrow and Monks Wearmouth, published by theSurtees Society, vol. xxix., 1854, p. 159. THE NORMAN CONQUEST. 29 The abbey church of St. Albans, built in the time of William theConqueror and William Rufus, as distinctly recorded by contem-porary historians, partakes of the Saxon character in many parts:we find baluster shafts in abundance, quantities of Roman tiles, andother features usually considered Saxon, but there is not theslightest doubt that the church was built from the foundationsafter 1077, when the work was commenced by Abbot Paul of Caen. The church of Wotton-Wawen, Warwickshire, is of the stylecalled Anglo-Saxon : a cell to the Benedictine abbey of Conches, inNormandy, was founded here about 1080, by Robert de Tonei,standard-bear
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