Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . lls us was thealtar of the Virgin, raised some height and reached bysteps, and behind it against the wall was the Pontifical 1 Chorus psallentium in aulam ecclesiae porrigebatur, decent! fabrica afrequentia turbae seclusus. Edmer, cited Willis. 14—2 Canter-bury The newcathedral 212 ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD [ch. xxvii chair\ Willis conjectures that this implies a westernapse, which may have been the original presbytery beforeorientation became the rule. Lanfrancs new cathedral was a basilica ending in anapse with transepts, and a central tower over the cross
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . lls us was thealtar of the Virgin, raised some height and reached bysteps, and behind it against the wall was the Pontifical 1 Chorus psallentium in aulam ecclesiae porrigebatur, decent! fabrica afrequentia turbae seclusus. Edmer, cited Willis. 14—2 Canter-bury The newcathedral 212 ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD [ch. xxvii chair\ Willis conjectures that this implies a westernapse, which may have been the original presbytery beforeorientation became the rule. Lanfrancs new cathedral was a basilica ending in anapse with transepts, and a central tower over the the east of each transept was an apsidal chapel, and thewhole plan was very like that at Westminster (Fig. 128).Willis observes that the dimensions of the new Cathedralso far as can be ascertained, correspond very closely withthose of S. Etienne at Caen, of which Lanfranc had beenthe first abbot, and which was built under his however is now to be seen of Lanfrancs CANTERBURY l^^~^^^ f ? »^ gj. Fig. 128. cathedral but a few patches of masonry opposite thespot where Becket fell. The choir was pulled downtwenty years after its completion and re-built on a muchErnuifand grander scale by Priors Ernulf and Conrad betweenglorious 1096 and mo. To them we owe all the Norman worknow visible above ground (Plate CXLI), and the greaterpart of the crypt. In the slender jamb-shafts of thewindows and the rich interlacing wall-arcades we see an ^ Ad hoc altare cum sacerdos ageret divina mysteria faciem ad populumqui deorsum stabat ad orientem versam habebat. Edmer, cited Willis. Plate CXLl /f i^M
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