. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. upihus, enumerates some of the churches in belong to the ages anterior to the Norman conquest. Among them are those of Stukely in Buckingham-shire, Barfreston {Jjg. 180. )in Kent, and Avington inBerkshire. Other exam-ples may be cited as atWaltham Abbey; the tran-sept arches at Southwell,Notiingliamsliire; the naveof tiie abliey cliurch at , Herts; tower atClapham, Beds, &c. TheAnglo-Saxon a;ra, tliougliit, perhaps, properly c
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. upihus, enumerates some of the churches in belong to the ages anterior to the Norman conquest. Among them are those of Stukely in Buckingham-shire, Barfreston {Jjg. 180. )in Kent, and Avington inBerkshire. Other exam-ples may be cited as atWaltham Abbey; the tran-sept arches at Southwell,Notiingliamsliire; the naveof tiie abliey cliurch at , Herts; tower atClapham, Beds, &c. TheAnglo-Saxon a;ra, tliougliit, perhaps, properly com-prised the time betweenA. D. 600 to A. n. 1066 ;that is froin the conversionof the Saxons to the Nor-man conquest, is not knownwith any thing apjjroachingto certainty, from the reignof Edgar in 980 to the last-named event; immediatelylirevious to which Edwardthe Confessor had, duringhis lifetime, completedWestminster Ahliey in astyle then prevalent in Nor-mandy, and with a inagni-ficenee far exceeding anyother then extant. No le;isthan eighteen of the largermonasteries, all of them 15e-nedictine, had been foundedby the Saxon kings in. IC8 IllSTOllV OF AUCIllTECTUllE Book I. tliL-ii sucpcssivo leJftns; and it is tliat tlic attacliccl to tlium were tlic niosj ? ? ilie six jjiiiicipal of tlicse were. St. Gennaiiis, in Cornwall; Col- cliester, in Essex ; Tewkes- biirv, in Gloucestershire ; St. decorated parts, as respected their architecture.
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