Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . of the nave is almost an ^°^ essential feature of the later Saxon churches built in theloth and nth centuries. It occurs at Earls Barton,Barton-on-Humber, Barnack, Brixworth, Wittering, Cor-bridge, and Clapham in Bedfordshire. At S. Andrews s. Rule the tower of S. Regulus or S. Rule has a strange likenessto the Lombard Campaniles, and might have been trans-planted bodily from Italy (Plate CXXXIV). Like the Lombard towers the English pre-conquesttowers have no buttresses, but rise four-square from baseto summit. It appears that in some cases they formed T
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . of the nave is almost an ^°^ essential feature of the later Saxon churches built in theloth and nth centuries. It occurs at Earls Barton,Barton-on-Humber, Barnack, Brixworth, Wittering, Cor-bridge, and Clapham in Bedfordshire. At S. Andrews s. Rule the tower of S. Regulus or S. Rule has a strange likenessto the Lombard Campaniles, and might have been trans-planted bodily from Italy (Plate CXXXIV). Like the Lombard towers the English pre-conquesttowers have no buttresses, but rise four-square from baseto summit. It appears that in some cases they formed The Tower the actual uave of the church, which was completed by asquare chamber on the west, and another square chamberon the east, one being the baptistery and the other thechancel. The upper chamber in the tower, often as atDeerhurst furnished with windows looking into thechurch, and treated with some attention, may have been * Baldwin Brown in the Builder oi 1895, Notes on Pre-conquest Archi-tecture in England^ No. vn. Plate CXXXIV. S. RULE—S. AXJJRliWS Plate CXXXV
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