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146 COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE.
may be said to stop and the next to begin, the student
must remember that in reality no such thing could happen.
The transition from one style to the next was slow and
gradual, and can often hardly be traced, so minute are the
differences. It may therefore be said that it is only for our
own use and guidance, treating the matter broadly, that
the division is made, for it must not be forgotten that the
mediaeval architecture of England is all one style.
ANGLO-SAXON STYLE (a.d. 449 to a.d. 1066).
ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER.
The buildings are sometimes composed of Roman remains,
or of rude attempts at copying them. The scanty remains
of this period render it difficult to estimate the character
possessed by the buildings. It is probable that timber was
the material mostly employed in all classes of buildings, and
we may believe that the great development in timber work
of the later Gothic styles was due to this early use. The
masonry work is considered by many to show signs of the
influence of wood architecture, as in the “ long and short ”
work, the triangular-headed openings, and the baluster
mullions (see illustration, No. 68).
EXAMPLES.
Worth Church, Barnac Church, Brixworth, Dover, Earl’s
Barton (No. 68), Wickham.
COMPARATIVE.
a. Plans are naturally simple, and churches seem to
have been planned as two oblongs, joined by a small chancel-
arch, the chancel being lower and smaller than the nave,
and distinctly marked as such externally and internally.
Towers are without buttresses ; of these there are few
remains.
Example : Earl’s Barton, Northants (No. 68).
b. Walls of rubble and rag stone, with ashlar at angles, in
"long and short” courses, as at Earl’s Barton (No. 68).
may be said to stop and the next to begin, the student
must remember that in reality no such thing could happen.
The transition from one style to the next was slow and
gradual, and can often hardly be traced, so minute are the
differences. It may therefore be said that it is only for our
own use and guidance, treating the matter broadly, that
the division is made, for it must not be forgotten that the
mediaeval architecture of England is all one style.
ANGLO-SAXON STYLE (a.d. 449 to a.d. 1066).
ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER.
The buildings are sometimes composed of Roman remains,
or of rude attempts at copying them. The scanty remains
of this period render it difficult to estimate the character
possessed by the buildings. It is probable that timber was
the material mostly employed in all classes of buildings, and
we may believe that the great development in timber work
of the later Gothic styles was due to this early use. The
masonry work is considered by many to show signs of the
influence of wood architecture, as in the “ long and short ”
work, the triangular-headed openings, and the baluster
mullions (see illustration, No. 68).
EXAMPLES.
Worth Church, Barnac Church, Brixworth, Dover, Earl’s
Barton (No. 68), Wickham.
COMPARATIVE.
a. Plans are naturally simple, and churches seem to
have been planned as two oblongs, joined by a small chancel-
arch, the chancel being lower and smaller than the nave,
and distinctly marked as such externally and internally.
Towers are without buttresses ; of these there are few
remains.
Example : Earl’s Barton, Northants (No. 68).
b. Walls of rubble and rag stone, with ashlar at angles, in
"long and short” courses, as at Earl’s Barton (No. 68).