Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . churchesis maintained here, though the gradation of the threestoreys is more pleasing at Peterborough. At Gloucester on the other hand, which was begun Gloucesterby Abbot Serlo in 1089, and dedicated in 1100 muchgreater importance is given to the nave arcade; it attainsa stately proportion at the expense of the triforium, whichis diminished to very small coupled lights under anincluding arch (Plate CLI). The columns are enor-mous cylinders built of small masonry and with plainround capitals, which are neither moulded nor carved,but devoid of any ornament
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . churchesis maintained here, though the gradation of the threestoreys is more pleasing at Peterborough. At Gloucester on the other hand, which was begun Gloucesterby Abbot Serlo in 1089, and dedicated in 1100 muchgreater importance is given to the nave arcade; it attainsa stately proportion at the expense of the triforium, whichis diminished to very small coupled lights under anincluding arch (Plate CLI). The columns are enor-mous cylinders built of small masonry and with plainround capitals, which are neither moulded nor carved,but devoid of any ornamentation. From these capitalsall the orders of the arch spring, unprepared for byanything below, and are decorated with plain roll mould-ings, zigzags, and billets. The general effect, if a littlesevere and cold, is extremely impressive. Tewkesbury Abbey has the same huge cylindrical Tewkes-columns in the nave, with plain round unornamented ^capitals, and arches of still simpler detail than those at 232 ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD [ch. xxvii. CH. xxvii] ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 233 Gloucester, and the triforium is quite unimportant, Tewkes- burv pinched up against the clerestory window-sill. Theclerestory however is not original, and the Normandesign may have been different. The magnificent westfront with its deeply recessed arch of many orders andits two piquant pinnacles, together with the grand centraltower over the crossing make this one of the very finestexamples of Romanesque architecture in existence(Fig. i35)\ Hereford and Malvern have the same massive Herefordcylindrical columns with simple round capitals ; that at MaivemHereford however having attached shafts on one side andsurface carving on the ovolo of the capital. At Malmes- Maimes-bury the round capitals are scolloped in imitation of the Abbeycushion form, and there is a similar capital, still furtherenriched, at Abbey Dore in Herefordshire. These cylindrical columns with a plain or nearly plainround capital at Glouceste
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