Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . > / ^. CH. xxvm] ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 243 license of interpretation may be accorded to most of the Normanothers. Subjects from the Old or New Testament aresometimes attempted with miserable success, and nowand then the design seems based on Byzantine will be observed, as for instance in the door-head fromStow Longa, how far superior in technique the purelyarchitectural ornament is to the sculpture in the tympanum.

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