. ,zaK (enriched): Alsop-en-le-Uale, Derbyshire. B. Zigzag andbeak-head : Winchester. C. Lozenge and zigzag : Lincoln. D. Indenteddiagonal: Westminster. E. Alternate billet: Norwich. F. Carvedcapital: Barton-le-Street ^. i t O 5 The Norman builders. 45 Norman work, as for instance the older portionsof the cathedrals of Canterbury, Durham, Win-chester, Gloucester, Peterborough, Ely, Norwich,Lincoln, St. Albans, Rochester and Oxford. They were prodigious builders, these Normans,and for a hundred years after their arrival theywere build
. ,zaK (enriched): Alsop-en-le-Uale, Derbyshire. B. Zigzag andbeak-head : Winchester. C. Lozenge and zigzag : Lincoln. D. Indenteddiagonal: Westminster. E. Alternate billet: Norwich. F. Carvedcapital: Barton-le-Street ^. i t O 5 The Norman builders. 45 Norman work, as for instance the older portionsof the cathedrals of Canterbury, Durham, Win-chester, Gloucester, Peterborough, Ely, Norwich,Lincoln, St. Albans, Rochester and Oxford. They were prodigious builders, these Normans,and for a hundred years after their arrival theywere building new churches, or rebuilding theold ones which they pulled down for the largeness of their architectural conceptionsmay be seen in the naves of Ely and Gloucester,and particularly in that of Durham Cathedral,among other noble buildings of the period; butmassive-looking pillars and walls were often filledin with rubbish, so that their strength wasmore apparent than real. Their mortar was muchinferior to that used by the Saxons. Many ofthe earlier Norman towers and churches fell fromthis cause. Hence the great amount of rebuildingin later times. One important fact seems to haveescaped all writers on English architecture. TheNormans seemed to imagine that all e
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