Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . jjt! ^O^. 1) M Pi CH. xxvii] ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 213 advance of the style towards greater delicacy and re- Canter-finement. Some of the colonnettes are twisted, someoctagonal, and others are enriched with diaper of the capitals are rudely carved, but most are ofthe cushion form though often relieved by fluting. The crypt (Plate CXLII), the finest in England and The cryptamong the finest in Europe, is vaulted with cross-groiningcarried on monocylindrical pillars with plain transverseribs between the bays. Many of the shafts are
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . jjt! ^O^. 1) M Pi CH. xxvii] ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 213 advance of the style towards greater delicacy and re- Canter-finement. Some of the colonnettes are twisted, someoctagonal, and others are enriched with diaper of the capitals are rudely carved, but most are ofthe cushion form though often relieved by fluting. The crypt (Plate CXLII), the finest in England and The cryptamong the finest in Europe, is vaulted with cross-groiningcarried on monocylindrical pillars with plain transverseribs between the bays. Many of the shafts are enrichedwith fluted patterns, scaled, zigzaged or twisted, and thecapitals are either plain cushions, or carved with rudeCorinthianizing foliage, or storied with grotesque one a devilish goat plays the fiddle to another, whois riding on a fish and blowing a trumpet. This Normancrypt of about iioo extends under the smaller transept,and stops at the eastern apsidal end of Prior Conradschoir. The rest of the present crypt eastwards is of thelater
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