History of mediæval art . Fig. 233.—Tower of Earls Barton. 38o ARCHITECTURE OF THE ROMANIC EPOCH. in this connection that the capitals, bases, and arches of the AbbeyChurch of Waltham, built between 1062 and 1066, are said to havebeen reveted with sheets of gilded copper. This empaistic work,which would have been impossible without a core of wood, or atleast a wooden model, may be compared to the sheet-armor of thatperiod, and was in accord with the martial character of the memberment of the walls in the interior of the larger churchesmust have been similar to the exterior of the to
History of mediæval art . Fig. 233.—Tower of Earls Barton. 38o ARCHITECTURE OF THE ROMANIC EPOCH. in this connection that the capitals, bases, and arches of the AbbeyChurch of Waltham, built between 1062 and 1066, are said to havebeen reveted with sheets of gilded copper. This empaistic work,which would have been impossible without a core of wood, or atleast a wooden model, may be compared to the sheet-armor of thatperiod, and was in accord with the martial character of the memberment of the walls in the interior of the larger churchesmust have been similar to the exterior of the towers of Earls Bartonor St. Peter in Barton-upon-Humber. After the conquest of England by the Normans, the French pc-cupied not onlythe highest political offices but the most influentialpositions of the Church. They thus had the opportunity of further-.
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