Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ury later BishopPudseys elegant Galilee brings us to the period of tran-sition from Romanesque to lighter Gothic. The advance at Durham on the transepts of Winchesteris shown also by the infinitely better proportion of thethree storeys. At Winchester the triforium and thegreat arcade are nearly equal in height. At Norwichthey seem quite so. At Durham the great arcade israised at the expense of the upper storeys with a magni-ficent result. In that splendid nave, with its hugetowering columns, no artist can stand unmoved. The interesting church of Pittingt
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ury later BishopPudseys elegant Galilee brings us to the period of tran-sition from Romanesque to lighter Gothic. The advance at Durham on the transepts of Winchesteris shown also by the infinitely better proportion of thethree storeys. At Winchester the triforium and thegreat arcade are nearly equal in height. At Norwichthey seem quite so. At Durham the great arcade israised at the expense of the upper storeys with a magni-ficent result. In that splendid nave, with its hugetowering columns, no artist can stand unmoved. The interesting church of Pittington, some five orsix miles from Durham, is said to have been anotherwork of Bishop Pudsey. The fluted and spirally adornedcolumns of the nave (Plate CXLIX) seem to have beeninspired by the earlier work at Durham, but they arecarried out differently. The spirals at Durham arechased into the cylindrical shaft, and do not mar theoutline. At Pittington they are left in relief, and theground is sunk instead, with the result that except where. p 5 CH. xxviij ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 229 the spiral roll reaches It the capital overhangs the shaft Pittingtondisagreeably. The days of this spiral ornament werereally over, and the artist trying to do something originalin that way has bungled. The capitals even here do notrise above a version of the cushion type (Fig. 133).
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