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Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial (1896)

Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 134

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n tlie eastern wall of eachtransept are semicircular and distinctly Norman in character; so, too, are thenave arches, but these have all the grace, lightness, and general treatment whichbetokens the influence ofthe later style, while thesreat arches at the crossare pointed. The arcadeabove these,… … IU£ ABBEY CUUKCH (1887). that the church at this time was lower than it is at present, for the arcadejust mentioned appears to have originally formed a pair of windows. Thereis evidence that there was a low lantern tower at the cross in the Normanperiod. In this condition the church probably…

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