. The Archaeological journal. ine. The north transept or Blakiston Porch is composed of very small square Stones, with angles of long and short work. A Th archM are out \ ». Domini. 1613. J C. 3 Venie. ii pewi i wing the capital* bi Exvltemva Domino. S. S. 1664 R. D. .) i. I lei wi • d i &ch word » shield id• i arms, a chevron between three belli n ii Id l lis liin my impaling thn t ... robbings I u \ l> 1607 R. v. ! NORTON CHURCH, COUNTY DURHAM. 147 which also appeared in the south transept before it wasrefaced. The tower is roughcast. A Norman church would scarcely want rebuilding in Pud-
. The Archaeological journal. ine. The north transept or Blakiston Porch is composed of very small square Stones, with angles of long and short work. A Th archM are out \ ». Domini. 1613. J C. 3 Venie. ii pewi i wing the capital* bi Exvltemva Domino. S. S. 1664 R. D. .) i. I lei wi • d i &ch word » shield id• i arms, a chevron between three belli n ii Id l lis liin my impaling thn t ... robbings I u \ l> 1607 R. v. ! NORTON CHURCH, COUNTY DURHAM. 147 which also appeared in the south transept before it wasrefaced. The tower is roughcast. A Norman church would scarcely want rebuilding in Pud-seys time, and I have no doubt that in the tower and tran-septs of Norton we see the remains of the Saxon G lzrrrr church which received theexpelled seculars of Dur-ham in 1085. The choir,it may be noticed, is morethan two-thirds the lengthof the nave, wdiich onlycomprises three all the arms ofthe Saxon church wrererather short and consequence of thearches on the north andsouth being narrower. than the transepts them-selves, the cllUrcll, WTlien in Original outline of the interior of Norton Church. . , . , .A. Tower. B. Original Nave. C. Original Choir. ltS Original Simple CrilCl- D. Blakiston Porch. E. Pettie Porch. form shape, would assume the common form, which appears in St. Cuthberts Cross, the Hartlepool tomb-stones inscribedwith Runes, ona fragment fromJarrow, on theedge of a Romanslab, now in theCastle of New-castle, and otherinstances. A base of a cross noticed in Brands account ofJarrow probably belonged to the design engraved, wdiich, asthe slab has been laid flat in a wall, must have run up the very careful examination, suggested by the positionof the triangular-headed windows, I cannot detect any changeof masonry in the gable of Blakiston Porch, and I am ledfrom this fact, and reference to Saxon MSS., to believe that,like the Romans, the Saxons used roofs of very moderatepitch. I am not unmindful that, in the later towers of
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