An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 53. Shobdon Church, Herefordshire, c. very rich Norman the-East, Oxford, c. 1150. square blocks at intervals, carrying the beam on flat 68 NORMAN VAULTS. stones which support the roof, or with small arcs be-tween them, or merely rude triangles, like the sup-posed Saxon arches; and these are sometimes con-tinued in late work, as at Iffley, hut in general, inlate work the corbels are carved, and the small arcsmore or less enriched. The earliest Norman Vaults are quite plain, and ofthe barrel form, as in the chapel of
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . 53. Shobdon Church, Herefordshire, c. very rich Norman the-East, Oxford, c. 1150. square blocks at intervals, carrying the beam on flat 68 NORMAN VAULTS. stones which support the roof, or with small arcs be-tween them, or merely rude triangles, like the sup-posed Saxon arches; and these are sometimes con-tinued in late work, as at Iffley, hut in general, inlate work the corbels are carved, and the small arcsmore or less enriched. The earliest Norman Vaults are quite plain, and ofthe barrel form, as in the chapel of the White Tower,London. In the next stage they have flat transversearches only; they are then groined, but still withoutribs: these plain groined vaults without ribs, over
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