Stiffleaf's photos
gloucester font from lancaut . 1160
elstow abbey , beds 1140,a c12 norman panel of scu…
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dover st.mary 1110
christchurch castle 1170
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this is the constables' hall of the castle, with a slightly later garderobe tower, and one of the earliest chimneys in britain. the ruined shell of the keep is on the motte nearby.
christchurch castle 1170
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one of the earliest chimneys in britain tops the hall of the constables'house in the castle, set by the small river below the tower remains on the motte nearby
castle hedingham 1180
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casle combe font 1270-1310
castle hedingham 1180
castle hedingham 1180
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the pointed heads of the windows are transitional to gothic, the round headed arch of the zigzagged doorway and flat pilaster buttresses show norman roots
castle hedingham 1180
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a late norman transitional chancel, with the entire east end's fenestration designed almost as one, a precursor of later larger windows with tracery
castle hedingham 1180
castle hedingham 1180
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the changes to the easternmost bay of the nave seem to indicate the existence of a central tower once.. the clerestory and hammerbeam roof date from the latest middle ages
castle hedingham 1180
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gothic volutes on the capitals and the pointed arch mix with norman features such as square abaci and zigzag to form the transitional chancel arch
west stourmouth 1190
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wells s12
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windblown stiffleaf, thornpuller and mouthpuller , square and octagonal abaci. work of the earliest c13
wells s8
wells nave 1215-29
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earliest english gothic ignored french rationalist rules from the start, dispensing with seperate bays to concentrate on the horizontal, allowing line to flow from pillar to arch without any defining capital, stilting door arches regardless of reason, and generally behaving with insular mannered eccentricity
