Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . • J 3fi 1 1 I - r ? ) 1 :i ? : *^ — >. .1 --*^ 7? 1 :; - -^.. •,« ,iS*Jj^««T^»Kr- -: EARLS BARTON CH. xxvi] ENGLAND—SAXON PERIOD 191 used for habitation\ The church at Barton-on-Humberseems to have been of this form originally. The decoration by slightly projecting strips of stone strip-worksometimes arranged m various patterns, is a very curious :. :i. £1^ haftffn. r Fig. 119. feature of Saxon architecture. Although strip-work of akind is to be seen in German Romanesque the way it wasemployed by the Saxon architects is quite original and 1 Mr Micklet
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . • J 3fi 1 1 I - r ? ) 1 :i ? : *^ — >. .1 --*^ 7? 1 :; - -^.. •,« ,iS*Jj^««T^»Kr- -: EARLS BARTON CH. xxvi] ENGLAND—SAXON PERIOD 191 used for habitation\ The church at Barton-on-Humberseems to have been of this form originally. The decoration by slightly projecting strips of stone strip-worksometimes arranged m various patterns, is a very curious :. :i. £1^ haftffn. r Fig. 119. feature of Saxon architecture. Although strip-work of akind is to be seen in German Romanesque the way it wasemployed by the Saxon architects is quite original and 1 Mr Micklethwaite who elaborates this theory credits the tower churchto Danish influence. 2 Earlier history of Barton-on-Humber, R. Brown, , with illustra-tions by Prof. Baldwin Brown. 192 ENGLAND—SAXON PERIOD [ch. xxvi national, and it owes nothing to Roman example. Thebest specimens of it are at the two Bartons that have been Earls just mentioned, and in the tower at Earls Barton(Plate CXXXV and Fig. 119) it is so profusely used thatit almost deserves to be called splendid. It occurs also Corhamp- in the little Saxon church of Corhampton in Hampshire, ton
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