Church and conventual arrangement With copious references, a complete glossary, and an index And illustrated by a series of ground-plans and plates of the arrangements of churches in different countries and at successive periods, and of the conventual plans adopted by the various orders . e Confessor,3 after a new kind of building,changed the ordinary Saxon parallelogram into a Latin crosswith a lantern at the intersection; the great area of thechurch had a lofty vaulting; the end had double arches oneither side ; the choir stood in the cross below the tower ; andabove and below were little ch
Church and conventual arrangement With copious references, a complete glossary, and an index And illustrated by a series of ground-plans and plates of the arrangements of churches in different countries and at successive periods, and of the conventual plans adopted by the various orders . e Confessor,3 after a new kind of building,changed the ordinary Saxon parallelogram into a Latin crosswith a lantern at the intersection; the great area of thechurch had a lofty vaulting; the end had double arches oneither side ; the choir stood in the cross below the tower ; andabove and below were little chapels furnished with altars. in the Castle, Dover, built in the early part of thesame reign, the latest date assignable, is cruciform and aisle-less, with a central tower. St. Edmunds, Bury, completed1095, had, besides a central tower, two octagonal west towers ;the east end was apsidal, the transept had eastern apses, andthere was a crypt under the A waggon-head vault ofstone appears first in the Tower of London, in St. JohnsChurch, 1081-92. LATER ENGLISH STYLES OE ARCHITECTURE. Edward the Confessor introduced the Norman style in 1050. 1 Lenoir, ii. 7. 2 Anglia Sacra, ii. 186. 3 G. G. Scott, Proc. R. I. B. A. 1860. 4 Monasticon, iii. 1095. fH ft <jj o H H H oo. B90W0 o-R-sa^od
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