. The Architectural magazine. ough theseapertures were splayed offin the inside to a consider-able width, to afford as muchlight as possible, yet the interiors must have been dark andgloomy in the extreme; so much so, that very few openings of thisearly character remain, having generally been displaced by the Storied windo%vs, richly dight,Casting a dim religious light, of a subsequent period. Fig. 108., from St. Albans Abbeychurch, is a specimen of a double window of early Normancharacter, clumsy in its design, and rude in execution. Thelarge plain arch, springing from square piers with impos
. The Architectural magazine. ough theseapertures were splayed offin the inside to a consider-able width, to afford as muchlight as possible, yet the interiors must have been dark andgloomy in the extreme; so much so, that very few openings of thisearly character remain, having generally been displaced by the Storied windo%vs, richly dight,Casting a dim religious light, of a subsequent period. Fig. 108., from St. Albans Abbeychurch, is a specimen of a double window of early Normancharacter, clumsy in its design, and rude in execution. Thelarge plain arch, springing from square piers with imposts,illustrates the Roman origin of the style. The column shafts109 are sometimes omitted, and zigzass and other orna-mental mouldings carriedcompletely round the win-dow. These mouldings andcolumn shafts gradually as-sumed a lighter character,preparatory to an alterationtaking place in the form ofthe arch, which eventuallyled to a radical change inthe whole system of eccle-siastical architecture. Thechurch of St. Cross, Hamp-. de Blois, brother of King building in Eng- 109. shows Fig. shire, erected in 1136, by Henry Stephen, is generally admitted to be the first land in which the pointed arch was displayed. part of an intersecting semicircular arcade, forming the triforium or gallery over the chancel of this church. Arcades of this description form a very common decoration of Norman churches, and wherever they are used, it is evident that the shape of the pointed arch is formed; but this is supposed to be the first of Gothic Architechire. 21
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