. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . h was apparent to every one,which symbolized in a sense thestrong, resolute Norman charac-ter—linked, as it now was, withFrankish grace and Saxon Stubbs had a saying thatthe Norman brought little incomparison with what he de-stroyed and little that he broughtwas his own. Whether thiswide statement may stand inregard to constitutional law orlegal history is a matter ofopinion, and the learned Bishopsopinion is entitled to the greatestrespect. That it was not con- --^^ cemed with and does not hold , „ t, „ „ -o , - 1 -. Angi,o-Saxon
. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . h was apparent to every one,which symbolized in a sense thestrong, resolute Norman charac-ter—linked, as it now was, withFrankish grace and Saxon Stubbs had a saying thatthe Norman brought little incomparison with what he de-stroyed and little that he broughtwas his own. Whether thiswide statement may stand inregard to constitutional law orlegal history is a matter ofopinion, and the learned Bishopsopinion is entitled to the greatestrespect. That it was not con- --^^ cemed with and does not hold , „ t, „ „ -o , - 1 -. Angi,o-Saxon Tower of Eari,s true m the case oi architecture barton Church, Northanxs is clear. As Mr Hughes ^ has said, The Norman style [of architecture] was, perhaps,the noblest form of Romanesque, as the English or Saxonwas, perhaps, its meanest manifestation. Erom the com-mencement of the Norman period the foreign ecclesias-tics brought over by the Conqueror, such as the Italian 1 In Traill and Manns Social History of England, vol. i, p. 458. 375. HISTORY OF ENGLAND I^anfranc and Anselm or the Norman Ralph, threw them-selves with energy into the task of building cathedralschurches, monasteries, and schools. In addition, we knowthat the Conqueror and his followers built castles throughoutthe land. These castles were, however, save in exceptionallyimportant cases, motte castles, mainly constructed of wood,and, speaking from an architectural point of view, unimpor-tant. It is to the eccle-siastical foundations thatwe must chiefly look for thefinest examples of the EarlyNorman style. These ex-amples, however, are extra-orduiarily numerous. De-spairing of the mean woodenor brick buildings of Saxontimes, the new-comerslevelled these to the groxmdand in their place erectednew, and in many casesmagnificent, stone struc-tures. For a time thehaste in which the rebuild-ing programme was carriedout is shown by the care-less stone - laying, whichmay also have been theresult of ignorance. T
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