xworth was a cell of the great Benedictinemonastery of Peterborough. After being destroyed by theDanes it was restored as we now see it in the early tenthcentury. At its restoration the western porch was raised andconverted into a square tower with a semicircular stairturret on its western face,… … REPTOX CKVPT instances that we possess of a western tower, a featurewhich seems to have originated with the Saxons, thoughit existed at Basly near Caen, St. Ricquier, and St. Remy atReims, whence the Saxons may have got the idea. It is,perhaps, the most characteristic feature of the Englishparish…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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