An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . the-East, Oxford, c. 1150. square blocks at intervals, carrying the beam on flat 68 NORMAN VAULTS. stones which support the roof, or with small arcs be-tween them, or merely rude triangles, like the sup-posed Saxon arches; and these are sometimes con-tinued in late work, as at Iffley, hut in general, inlate work the corbels are carved, and the small arcsmore or less enriched. The earliest Norman Vaults are quite plain, and ofthe barrel form, as in the chapel of the White Tower,London. In the next stage they have flat transversearches only;

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An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . the-East, Oxford, c. 1150. square blocks at intervals, carrying the beam on flat 68 NORMAN VAULTS. stones which support the roof, or with small arcs be-tween them, or merely rude triangles, like the sup-posed Saxon arches; and these are sometimes con-tinued in late work, as at Iffley, hut in general, inlate work the corbels are carved, and the small arcsmore or less enriched. The earliest Norman Vaults are quite plain, and ofthe barrel form, as in the chapel of the White Tower,London. In the next stage they have flat transversearches only; they are then groined, but still withoutribs: these plain groined vaults without ribs, over. 55. Sherborne Castle, , 1115— an early Norman vault groined without ribs. NORMAN VAULTS. 69 aisles or other narrow spaces, are often contempora-neous with the barrel vaults, and generally belong tothe latter half of the eleventh century, or the begin-ning of the twelfth, as at Sherborne Castle (55), builtby Eoger, bishop of Salisbury, 1115—1139; at alater period the ribs are introduced, at first square,then plain half-rounds, then moulded, as in Peter-

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