Early Architecture in Great Britain--_Continued_.
Chapel of St. John, Tower of London--St. Alban’s Abbey--St.
Stephen’s at Caen--Cathedrals of Winchester, Ely, London,
Rochester, and Norwich--Abbey Church at Bury St.
Edmund’s--Gloucester Cathedral--Tewkesbury Abbey--Cathedrals of
Worcester and Durham--Waltham Abbey--Christchurch, Hants.
Having now given a general outline of the intrinsic principles of Norman
architecture, I will proceed to offer a few brief descriptions of some
of its earlier creations, or rather of a selection of such of them as
have come down to our own day, or of which we have sufficient
information to make the consideration of them profitable.
[Illustration: Fig. 242.--St. John’s Chapel, Tower of London.]
I have already spoken at some length of Lanfranc’s Cathedral at
Canterbury, and of its identity, in general design, with the Conqueror’s
Abbey Church of St. Etienne, at Caen. I shall have to revert to this
cathedral more than once in describing additions and alterations of
later date; but there are no remains of Lanfranc’s original work of
sufficient importance to warrant me in occupying your time upon it.
[Illustration: Fig. 243.--St. John’s Chapel, Tower of London.