Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 51
nough for our purpose toknow that it was a style elaborated by the race which sprangfrom the conquest of Neustria and its Celtic population by theNorse invaders. Its form may have been influenced, to someextent, by the example set by the late Saxon builders on the northside of the Channel, and its… … FIG. 39.—ST. JOHN S CHAPEL,TOWER OF LONDON. In the eleventh century, and for long after it, a narrow sea wasno such barrier between one country and another as it is now. In the days when roads scarcely existed, andmeans of land locomotion were at once badand confined to the rich, a sea, if not…
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