The greater abbeys of England, with illustrations in colour after Warwick Goble (1908)
Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York ; Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 378
ogether constructed in a styleat that time new in England; it was the first Normanchurch ever ere6ted in England. One writer describesit as a building supported by many pillars and arches,and Matthew Paris speaks of it as having been builtin a new style, which, he adds, served as a patternmuch… … Westminster manner; the vault was covered v^ith a strong double-arched roof of stone on both sides. The cross, whichembraced the choir, and by its transept supported ahigh tower in the middle, rose first with a low strongarch, and then swelled out with several winging stair-cases to the single…
Abbeys
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