Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 372
artist can stand unmoved. The interesting church of Pittington, some five orsix miles from Durham, is said to have been anotherwork of Bishop Pudsey. The fluted and spirally adornedcolumns of the nave (Plate CXLIX) seem to have beeninspired by the earlier work at Durham, but they arecarried out… … p 5 CH. xxviij ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 229 the spiral roll reaches It the capital overhangs the shaft Pittingtondisagreeably. The days of this spiral ornament werereally over, and the artist trying to do something originalin that way has bungled. The capitals even here do notrise above a version of…
