Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . 1135, but others with more amptonprobability about 1180, is remarkable on many is one of the very few instances in northern Gothicarchitecture where polychrome masonry is used as a modeof decoration. The strong orange-coloured iron-stoneof South Northamptonshire is employed in conjunctionwith white free-stone in bands and alternate voussoirs,with a very happy effect. The church but for its squareeast end is a perfect basilica (Fig. 136), unbroken by 1 This stone seems not to be in its original place or state. The lastnumeral is not in relief
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . 1135, but others with more amptonprobability about 1180, is remarkable on many is one of the very few instances in northern Gothicarchitecture where polychrome masonry is used as a modeof decoration. The strong orange-coloured iron-stoneof South Northamptonshire is employed in conjunctionwith white free-stone in bands and alternate voussoirs,with a very happy effect. The church but for its squareeast end is a perfect basilica (Fig. 136), unbroken by 1 This stone seems not to be in its original place or state. The lastnumeral is not in relief like the rest but scratched very rudely into the stone. 238 ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD [ch. xxviii s. Peters, any chancel arch, with round arches on columns, andampton wooden roofs. The principal columns are quatrefoil inplan, formed of four attached shafts, of which one runs upto take the tiebeams of the trusses, and they once hadarches springing from them across the aisle. The inter-mediate columns are cylindrical, with an enriched and. J0£cimhm Fig. 137. moulded band or ring surrounding them about all have stilted attic bases, which in some cases havetoes. The tower (Plate CLVII) at the west end is notin its original state, but was re-built in the i6th centurywith old materials and not on the original site, but farthereastward, cutting off half of the next double bay. It has Plate CLV/
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