Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Fig. 117. churches in Dover Castle and at Repton. Mr Mickle-thwaite believes that these and other Saxon churches ofthe same type had two towers, the central one for interior CH. xxvi] ENGLAND—SAXON PERIOD 189 dignity, the western for a campanile, and possibly forhabitation in the upper part. At the church at Ramsey Ramseybuilt in 969 there were two towers quarum minor vero in quadrifidae structurae medio,&c., &c.^ At Dover the place of a second tower at the Doverwest end is supplied by the Roman Pharos, which wasonce connected to
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Fig. 117. churches in Dover Castle and at Repton. Mr Mickle-thwaite believes that these and other Saxon churches ofthe same type had two towers, the central one for interior CH. xxvi] ENGLAND—SAXON PERIOD 189 dignity, the western for a campanile, and possibly forhabitation in the upper part. At the church at Ramsey Ramseybuilt in 969 there were two towers quarum minor vero in quadrifidae structurae medio,&c., &c.^ At Dover the place of a second tower at the Doverwest end is supplied by the Roman Pharos, which wasonce connected to the nave by a short (after ^aeteYvy^ortff.) net - - - — — ^p^^sp 60 yp So J^o O 5 10 20 30 vSoxoTL. MMsiM^yiceval. of staircxxs^e ^ Fig. 118. Deerhurst has another Saxon building, the chapel of DukeDuke Odda, dedicated to the Trinity by Bishop Aeldred chapdin 1056. It consists of a nave and chancel communicat-ing by a round arch on plain jambs with impost blockssimply chamfered on the under side. The arch has a 1 Nist. Ramsiensis, cited Micklethwaite, Arch. Journal, Dec. 1896. 2 The date and name of the founder are preserved on an inscribed stonenow preserved in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. I90 ENGLAND—SAXON PERIOD [ch. xxvi plain unmoulded label, and the entrance doorway is likeit. The windows are splayed both inwards and total length is 46 ft., the chancel is 11 ft. wide,and the nave 16 ft. wide and 17 ft. to the plate. The Long and coigns are of the long and short work frequent in Saxonbuilding, though not peculiar to it, for I have seen
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