An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . nmon (57), resemblingin appearance those which we find in some parts of Nor-mandy of the same period, there executed in stone, onaccount of the abundance of the material, the facilitywith which it is worked, and the skill of the workmen. When the towers are not placed over the centre ofthe church, but at the west end, it is remarkable thatthe later Norman towersare more massive and not solofty as the early ones alreadydescribed. They are com-paratively low and heavy,sometimes diminishing bystages, and having buttressesof little projection o
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . nmon (57), resemblingin appearance those which we find in some parts of Nor-mandy of the same period, there executed in stone, onaccount of the abundance of the material, the facilitywith which it is worked, and the skill of the workmen. When the towers are not placed over the centre ofthe church, but at the west end, it is remarkable thatthe later Norman towersare more massive and not solofty as the early ones alreadydescribed. They are com-paratively low and heavy,sometimes diminishing bystages, and having buttressesof little projection on thelower parts. The belfry, orupper story, has frequentlybeen added in late Normantimes upon the earlier belfry windows are gene-rally double, and divided bya shaft. Eaelt Norman Turretsare very rarely to be metwith, but there are good ex-amples at St. Albans; at alater period they are fre-quent as stair-turrets, but *<-tifu Pi1*11111have generally lost the ori- 58. Bishops cieeve, t n • Gloucestershire. gmal root or capping: some-. 72 NORMAN ROUND TOWERS. times, as at Iffley, and Christ Church, Hampshire, theydie into the tower below the corbel-table; in other in-stances, as at Bishops Cleeve (58) and Bredon, they arecarried up above the parapet and terminate in pinnacles;they are sometimes round and sometimes square. The Rototd Towers which are so abundant in Nor-folk and Suffolk (59) are frequently of the Nor-man period; some may beearlier, and others are cer-tainly later; they are oftenso entirely devoid of all orna-ment or character, that it isimpossible 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 whichare necessary for squaretowers, and which oftenmay not have been easy toprocure in districts wherebuilding-stone has all to be ^SBSSS^SSlkLimported. The same cause for the frequentand long-continued use in the same distri
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