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Art in Great Britain and Ireland (1913)

Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 49

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ofthe Norman Abbey, then recently com-menced. Canterbury was finished first.Its still existing parts may be taken asthe oldest survivals of the new styleof any importance, but it had a pred-ecessor in the church built by Edwardthe Confessor on the site at West-minster which has since become… … FIG. 40.—PLAN : ST. JOHN S CHAPEL,TOWER OF LONDON. ANGLO-NORMAN ARCHITECTURE chapels, in the triforium as well as on the floor of the church. Such evidence as we possess goes to prove that the ground covered by it coincided pretty well with that on which the present Abbey stands. An interesting…

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