Warton, Thomas [Editor]: Essays on gothic architecture: twelve plates of ornaments, &c. selected from ancient buildings (London, 1808)

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cathedral, on the outside. These being
part of the original work, constructed
before the year 1093f, are prior to the
first crusade, and afford perhaps the ear-
liest authentic specimen of the pointed
arch to be met with in tire kingdom.

PLATE IX.

'Fig. 1. Intersecting circular arches, supported by
Saxon pilasters, both richly ornamented,
forming perfect pointed arches. The inter-
sections, which are open through the whole
thickness of the wall, constitute the win-
dows, to the number of twenty, which en-
lighten the chancel in the church of St.
Cross, near Winchester. This being the
eastern end of the sacred fabric, where the
high altar stood, and of course first
finished, must have been constructed in
the reign of Henry I. s

' The cathedral and adjoining monastery, which were begun
to be rebuilt by Walkelin in 1079, were finished by him and
solemnly dedicated in the aforesaid year, 1093, three years
before the first crusade. (Annales Winton.)

g Godwin, de Angi. Praesul. ascribes the construction of
St. Cross, by bishop Henry de Blois, to the year 1132;
Lowthj in his Life of Wykeham from original papers, to
1136. Probably it was begun in the former year and finished
in the latter. Henry I. died in 1135.