Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . monks ofCanterbury regarded the martyrdom of Becket as ablessing in disguise, enabling them to eclipse all otherplaces of pilgrimage in England, and almost in Europe. The cult of S. Swithin however did not languish,and it was to accommodate the swarms of pilgrims thatBishop Godfrey de Lucy built the beautiful retro-choir,almost a church by itself, in the first years of the13th century. The The greater part of Walkelyns fabric still remains, though disguised in the nave by Wykehams Perpen-dicular casing: but the transepts and the crypt havepreserved their
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . monks ofCanterbury regarded the martyrdom of Becket as ablessing in disguise, enabling them to eclipse all otherplaces of pilgrimage in England, and almost in Europe. The cult of S. Swithin however did not languish,and it was to accommodate the swarms of pilgrims thatBishop Godfrey de Lucy built the beautiful retro-choir,almost a church by itself, in the first years of the13th century. The The greater part of Walkelyns fabric still remains, though disguised in the nave by Wykehams Perpen-dicular casing: but the transepts and the crypt havepreserved their original form unaltered (Plate CXLIII).The aisles were vaulted in rubble masonry, with trans-verse arches dividing bay from bay, but no diagonal upper roofs were, and in the transepts still areceiled with wood. The details are rude, almost bar-barous ; the masses of masonry enormous ; the detail Absence of simplicity itself. No sculpture decorates it, the onlyornament is a billet or dentil such as any mason could Plan CXIJIl. WINCHESTER—North Transept CH. xxvii] ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 217chop out. The columns have mere cushion capitals win- cliGStcr formed by squaring off the four sides of an inverted cathedraland truncated cone or hemisphere. Those in the cryptare strangely primitive, and seem rude imitations ofsome Doric capital that may have survived from RomanVenta Belgarum. Across the end of each transept (PlateCXLIII) there is the peculiar feature of a gallery,formed by returning the arches and vaults of the aisles Thewith nothing over them, so as to form a terrace from gallerytriforium to triforium. The same feature occurs inNormandy, at S. Etienne in Caen, at the fine church ofBoscherville and in that at Cerisy-le-Foret, from whichit would appear to be a feature peculiar to Normanarchitecture, though an instance of something like itexists at Le Puy in Auvergne\ The isolated column inthe middle of the north transept, the Martyrdom, atCanterbury, which togeth
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