Church and conventual arrangement With copious references, a complete glossary, and an index And illustrated by a series of ground-plans and plates of the arrangements of churches in different countries and at successive periods, and of the conventual plans adopted by the various orders . 18 £ a X 9 x v i. Ground-Plan. 65 The eleventh century was the real commencement of Medievalarchitecture; but a marked improvement is not perceptibletill the beginning of the twelfth. About 1130 the pointedarch appears at St. Bartholomews Smithfield, Malmesbury,Fountains, and St. Cross; but the Becket crown a


Church and conventual arrangement With copious references, a complete glossary, and an index And illustrated by a series of ground-plans and plates of the arrangements of churches in different countries and at successive periods, and of the conventual plans adopted by the various orders . 18 £ a X 9 x v i. Ground-Plan. 65 The eleventh century was the real commencement of Medievalarchitecture; but a marked improvement is not perceptibletill the beginning of the twelfth. About 1130 the pointedarch appears at St. Bartholomews Smithfield, Malmesbury,Fountains, and St. Cross; but the Becket crown at Canter-bury, 1184, is the earliest English Gothic building, and thestyle appears completely developed c. 1200, in the choir ofLincoln, the presbytery of Winchester, and Galilee of styles are thus distributed: Norman, 1066-1189.(Transitional, 1189-1200). Early English, 1200-1272.(Transitional, 1272-1307). Decorated, 1307-1360. Pro-fessor Willis believes that Transitional to Perpendicularappears at Gloucester c. 1338 ; Perpendicular GROUND-PLAN. In the Norman and Transitional Norman church, the grandcharacteristics were the great length of the nave, at St. Albans,Winchester, Norwich, Ely, Peterborough, Jorevalle, and By-land : a triapsal arrangement, the choir, shorter than at a


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