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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 531

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ting vault were theessential elements of the Northern Romanesque.This was the style which the Normans developedin England. As has been seen, tlie arciiitecture of the Nor-man, the new style, as it was called, had already,before the conquest, founil its way to England,iiiid Edward the Confessor had… … 10 L_ SO England: Lincoln Cathedral ; Plan of NaveVaulting, c. 12;i5 a.d. English, and even the builders who were imbuedwith the Saxon methods adopted the ornamen-tation of the Norman work. Tiius one finds, in the eleventh century, workclearly Saxon, yet with Romanesque featuresand ornament,…

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