Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . laid thefoundations of Romanesque sculpture may have owed nosmall part of their capacity I The influence exercised by these smaller Byzantineworks on the sculpture of the south of France has beennoticed in a previous chapter^ There can be no doubtthat it made itself felt also within our shores. Nor mustwe forget the effect which would be produced by theByzantine paintings which were brought hither from * Corpus vero ejus (sc. Accae) sepultum est, duaeque cruces lapideaemirabili caelatura decoratae positae sunt, una ad caput, altera ad pedes ,
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . laid thefoundations of Romanesque sculpture may have owed nosmall part of their capacity I The influence exercised by these smaller Byzantineworks on the sculpture of the south of France has beennoticed in a previous chapter^ There can be no doubtthat it made itself felt also within our shores. Nor mustwe forget the effect which would be produced by theByzantine paintings which were brought hither from * Corpus vero ejus (sc. Accae) sepultum est, duaeque cruces lapideaemirabili caelatura decoratae positae sunt, una ad caput, altera ad pedes , Nzsi. Regum. 2 See on this subject Transactions of Durham and NorthumberlandArchitectural and Archaeological Society, vol. IV. Also Catalogue of Sculp-tured and hiscribed Stone in the Cathedral Library, Durham, Haverfield andGreenwell. Also Professor Lethaby in the Architectural Review, Aug. 1912. 3 Catalogue of Ivories in the British Museum, Introduction, p. xxxiii. * V. sup. ch. XX. p. 70. ivories 198 ENGLAND—SAXON PERIOD [ch. xxvi. Fig. 123. CH. xxvi] ENGLAND—SAXON PERIOD 199 Rome by Biscop, whose example was no doubt followedby others as opportunity offered. For all hieraticdecorative work the schools of the East seem to have setthe example throughout Europe. The date of the Bradford building itself is very Date ofuncertain. To judge from the design, which shows on-Avonconsiderable architectural skill, and the execution of themasonry which is excellent, the work seems far toomature for the date of the original foundation by BishopAdhelm about 705. One would naturally date it as wellas the sculptures about the end of the 9th or even in theloth century. And yet William of Malmesbury, writingwithin a century after the conquest, a monk of Adhelmskindred foundation only a few miles away, who must haveknown the building well, says positively that this isAdhelms church \ Among the plans of Saxon churches two types appear. Types ofOne has the square east end of Bradford-on-Avon
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