LECTURES ON THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIÆVAL ARCHITECTURE [Illustration: J. LEI DESIGN SUBMITTED FOR THE NEW LAW COURTS, LONDON. CENTRAL HALL. SIR GEO. GILBERT SCOTT R.A., ARCHITECT] LECTURES ON THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF Mediæval Architecture Delivered at the Royal Academy BY SIR GILBERT SCOTT, R.A., F.S.A., LL.D., ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES--VOL. II. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1879 _The right of Translation is reserved._ _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_. CONTENTS. VOL. II. LECTURE X. Early Architecture in Great Britain. Review of the developments in the early Architecture of our own land--Recent research in Central Syria--Examples in Northern Europe previous to the eleventh century--Early remains in Scotland and Ireland--Anglo-Saxon Architecture--Churches founded by St. Augustine--Canterbury and York--Churches at Hexham and Ripon--Ramsey Abbey--Winchester Cathedral--Destruction of Churches by Sweyn--Restoration and building by Canute--Roman models--Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon work--Brixworth Church, Northamptonshire Church on the Castlehill, Dover--Worth Church, Sussex--Bradford Church, Wilts--Chancel of Saxon Church at Jarrow-on-the-Tyne--Churches of Monk Wearmouth and Stow--Crypts at Wing, Repton, and Lastingham--Towers of St. Benet’s, Cambridge: Trinity Church, Colchester: Earls Barton: Barnach: Barton-on-Humber--Sompting, Sussex: and Clapham, Bedfordshire--Chapel at Greensted, Essex--Classification into periods of this form of Architecture Page 1 LECTURE XI. Early Architecture in Great Britain--_continued_. Architecture of the Normans--St. Stephen’s at Caen--Canterbury Cathedral modelled on that of St. Stephen’s--Description of the Norman church built by the Confessor at Westminster _before the Conquest_--Instances of Anglo-Saxon architecture being used _after the Conquest_--Characteristics of the Norman style--Varieties of combination--Doors, windows, archways, arcades, and vaulting--Minor details--Mechanical ideal of a great Norman church--Vast scale and number of works undertaken by the early Norman builders Page 60 LECTURE XII. Early Architecture in Great Britain--_continued_.