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Title: An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Oxford: J. Parker and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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48 THE EARLY NORMAN STYLE. especially that the building might have fallen through imper-feet eonstruetion, even though he had never been buried there.That this was really the case, the building itself affords usabundant evidence, and proves that even the Normans at this
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28. Transept, Winchester Cathedral, A.D. 1079—1093.A. Pier-arches. N.B. It may bp noted that the pier-arches, triforium, B. Triforium, or Blind-story. and clerestory, are all nearly of equal height, C. Clearstory, or Clerestory. which is frequent in the Norman style, hut not afterwards. HENRY THE FIRST. 49 period were still bad masons, and very imperfectly acquaintedwith the principles of construction. The tower which was re-built soon after the fall is still standing, and the enormousmasses of masonry which were piled together to support it, andprevent it from falling again, shew such an amazing waste oflabour and material as clearly to prove that it was the workof very unskilful builders This example (27, 28, 29) is valuable to us also inan other respect: thetwo transepts wereonly partially in-jured by the fallof the tower; thegreater part of bothof them belongs tothe original work;the junction of theold work and thenew can be dis-tinctly traced; and here we begin to find a differ

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