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Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f peace. Buildings left by the Romans might beturned into defences against the Saxons, or castles formarauding chieftains, but it would be vain to look for anyBritonsnot native architecture. The Britons had not assimilatediz^d^ Roman culture like the Gauls, and it is not likely thatmany Romans, if any, let the legions go without them.Among the princes whose vices Gildas castigates wefind side by side with the Celtic names of Vortiporius,Cuneglasus and Maglocunus, the Latin Constantinus andAurelius; but there is nothing to tell us whether theywere Romans who had stayed behind, or ItalianizedBritons. All foreign artizans had probably departed 1 Moris namque continui erat genti, sicut et nunc est, ut inftrma esset adretundenda hostium tela, et fortis esset ad civilia bella, et peccatorum onerasustinenda. Gildas, Epistola § 19. 2 Ibid. § 26, he tells us he was born in the year of the battle of MountBadon, which was 520, so that his history was written in 564. CH. XXVl) ROMAN BRITAIN 1/5
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rt bo O o A V « 1 — 0 ^ bo i U- V o_ V) rt 176 ROMAN BRITAIN (CH. XXVI Britishchurches with the rest, and few if any of the Britons were able,even if their civil wars gave them leisure, to carry on thearts and industries that had flourished under Roman rule.The Britons it was true were Christians, and had churchesof which some remains have come down to us, but theyshow only very humble architectural skill. ExcavationsSiichester at Silchester in 1893 exposed the foundations of a smallbasilican church, which dating as it must from some timebetween Constantines Edict of Milan in 313 and thedeparture of the Romans in 411, may fairly be consideredthe earliest ecclesiastical building in England of whichwe have any trace. Small as it is, only 42 ft. in lengthwith a nave 10 ft. wide, it is in miniature a perfect basilica,with nave and aisles, apse, narthex, and transepts. Thewalls are 2 ft. thick, of flint rubble with tile coigns(Fig. 113)^ Conformably to primitive rule

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