Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . DURHAM—The Nave Plate CXLVITI. DURHAM—The Galilee CH. xxvii] ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 227 The Galilee chapel outside the west end, which over- Durhamhangs the precipice, and where lie the bones of the TheVenerable Bede, shows what the Norman style wasdeveloped into when greater experience and riper con-structive power enabled the builders to design in a lighterstyle and with more elegance (Plate CXLVIII). Itwas built by Bishop Pudsey about the year 1175, lessthan a hundred years after Bishop William laid the firststone of his ponderous arcades, and it shows

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Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . DURHAM—The Nave Plate CXLVITI. DURHAM—The Galilee CH. xxvii] ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 227 The Galilee chapel outside the west end, which over- Durhamhangs the precipice, and where lie the bones of the TheVenerable Bede, shows what the Norman style wasdeveloped into when greater experience and riper con-structive power enabled the builders to design in a lighterstyle and with more elegance (Plate CXLVIII). Itwas built by Bishop Pudsey about the year 1175, lessthan a hundred years after Bishop William laid the firststone of his ponderous arcades, and it shows a fairlyrapid advance in architectural skilP. Indeed the architectreduced his supports dangerously. Of the present r 10 I ..^ /•8r

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