Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . WC5TM1N5TER ABBEY IN TH£ XI CENT^ • Tkri dtstroytci. Fig. 125. range of his monastic building remains, reaching fromthe south transept to Little Deans Yard. The upperstorey, once the monks dormitory, is now occupied by thelibrary and the great school of Westminster. Below itis a low vaulted building with a row of massive columnsdown the middle from which the groining springs toeither side, with plain fiat transverse ribs, but no CH. xxvii] ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 207 diag-onals (Fig. 126), like the crypts of Mainz, Speyer,and many others described in forme
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . WC5TM1N5TER ABBEY IN TH£ XI CENT^ • Tkri dtstroytci. Fig. 125. range of his monastic building remains, reaching fromthe south transept to Little Deans Yard. The upperstorey, once the monks dormitory, is now occupied by thelibrary and the great school of Westminster. Below itis a low vaulted building with a row of massive columnsdown the middle from which the groining springs toeither side, with plain fiat transverse ribs, but no CH. xxvii] ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 207 diag-onals (Fig. 126), like the crypts of Mainz, Speyer,and many others described in former chapters. Nothingcan be plainer than the workmanship. The capitals arethick flat slabs with a simple ovolo below, and the baseis similar. Some of the capitals have been roughlydecorated in Norman times on one side leaving the othersquare, showing probably that there were partitions. Fig. 126 (from Gleanings &^c.). against them. There is a little better finish in the windowsof the upper storey, which have an outer order with jambshafts and cushion capitals. But there are signs that it islater than that below. The effect of this building, reinforced by the Norman Spreadconquest that followed, was to revolutionize the art of Nonnanthe country. William of Malmesbury, writing less than ^^^^ 2o8 ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD [ch. xxvii a century later, says the church which Edward was thefirst to build in England in that kind of design, was nowemulated by nearly all in sumptuous outlay. Now, hesays in another place, you may see in villages churches,in towns monasteries rise in the new style of building\The No sooner were the Normans established here than re°buiMing they began to pull down the existing churches andre-build them on a more magnificent scale. There couldhave been no necessity for this re-building: most ofthe Saxon churches only dated from the time ofCanute,
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