. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . ly a century used indiscriminately, aswas most consonant to the necessities of the work,or the builders ideas.* At Canterbury, an orna- 68 NORMAN ARCHES. mental arcade of intersecting arches (29) occurs bothon the inside and outside of the wall in St. Anselmstower. The work is frequently quite as massive,- andin all other respects of as early character, with thepointed arch as with the round one; they occur inMalmesbury Abbey Church (43), apparently in thework of RogerbishopofSalis-bury 1115—1139, with-out any otherapparent dif-feren
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . ly a century used indiscriminately, aswas most consonant to the necessities of the work,or the builders ideas.* At Canterbury, an orna- 68 NORMAN ARCHES. mental arcade of intersecting arches (29) occurs bothon the inside and outside of the wall in St. Anselmstower. The work is frequently quite as massive,- andin all other respects of as early character, with thepointed arch as with the round one; they occur inMalmesbury Abbey Church (43), apparently in thework of RogerbishopofSalis-bury 1115—1139, with-out any otherapparent dif-ference of cha-racter from therest of thework. Thepointed arch,taken byitself,is therefore noproof of thechangeofstyle,nor even oflate work. The obser-vation of socareful and ac-curate an ob-server as Eick- -, 43. Malmesljury Abbey, Wiltshire, 1115 scarcely Pointed Arch with pure Norman mouldings and requires, per- scolloped capitals. haps, to be strengthoDed by additional examples; but as the early use of the pointed arch, long prior to any. NORMAN ARCHES, 69 change of style, has not been generally observed, itmay be useful to mention a few more instances. TheChurch of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, which ischiefly the work of the Crasaders, soon after 1100,has pointed arches in that part of it which they built ^\St. Cross Church, near Winchester, founded by Henryde Blois in 1136, has pointed arches; and thetriforiumhas intersecting arcades, with the intervals left open aswindows. To these may be added, Fountains Abbey,Yorkshire, foundedin 1132: pointedarches occur in theearly part of thework, which is ofpure Norman cha-racter, and appearsto have been builtbefore the fire in1140;—and Kirk-stall Abbey (44),built between 1152and 1182: herethe work is oflater character,but still pure Nor-man. All theseare previous to theperiod of transi-tion, and have-not transitionalmouldinoS. Kirkstall Abl)e7, Yorkshire, 1152-1160.
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