In architecture no advance took place until very late. The small
ancient church at Bradford-on-Avon in the south of England belongs to
the Saxon period. The Saxon stonework exhibited in a few buildings
like the church tower of Earl's Barton, Northamptonshire, is an
attempt to imitate timber with stone, and has been called "stone
carpentry."[2] Edward the Confessor's work in Westminster Abbey was
not Saxon, but Norman, he having obtained his plans, and probably his
builders, from Normandy.
[2] See Parker's "Introduction to Gothic Architecture" for
illustrations of this work.