Vitale, San, church of, ii. 259. Vitruvius, ii. 10, 237; respecting the Etruscan temples, 301. Vogüé, Count de, i. 336; ii. 7, 305. Voluted capital, ii. 302. Vortigern, ii. 13. W Wagon-head vaults, i. 238; ii. 87; at St. Stephen’s, Nevers, 89; Tower Chapel, 93. Wales, the transition in, i. 341. Walkelin de Ferres, i. 14, 120. Walkelyn, Bishop, ii. 104. Walpole, Horace, ii. 316. Walsingham, Alan de, work of, i. 276. Waltham Abbey, i. 31, 314; roof of, ii. 100, 120, 124, 126. Waltham Cross, i. 189, 314. Waltheof, ii. 59. Walton, West, detached tower, i. 194. Warehouses of Germany, i. 21. Warmington Church, i. 193. Wells Cathedral, i. 22, 140; sculpture at, 202; façade, 165, 187; north porch, 167; bishop’s palace, 287; group of colonnettes at, ii. 148; choir, 216; chapter-house, 210. Welsh groins, ii. 173, 199, 214. Western Empire, architecture of, i. 11; civilisation and arts, ii. 6, 296. Western Europe, churches of, i. 51; thirteenth century work in, 137; buildings of, in the twelfth century, ii. 7; carved ornamentation of, 8; architecture of, in A.D. 1000, 62. Westminster Abbey, i. 31, 140, 174, 273, 286, 351; ii. 35, 189, 311; bar-tracery, i. 163; geometrical system of tracery, 276; window-glazing, 252; soffit of rere-arch richly panelled, 283; eastern portions, 343; chapter-house, 177, 287; work of Edward the Confessor, 209; St. Catharine’s Chapel, 310; study of, _ibid._; works of Henry III. and Edward I. _ibid._; sculpture, 311; Henry VII.’s Chapel, Torrigiano’s work, 312; enamel and mosaic work, retabulum of the altar, iron and bronze work, 312; church refounded by King Edward, ii. 68; description of, by contemporary writers, _ibid._, 69; by a writer in the thirteenth century, 70; bases found under the altar space of Edward the Confessor’s church, 72; capitals in the Confessor’s buildings, 85; aisle of apse, 183; chapter-house vaulting, 184, 185, 200, 205; clerestory vaulting, 187; bosses, 195; Chapel of St. Faith, 197, 207; vaulting of the eastern part of, 205; bayswest of the crossing, 209; cloisters, 211, 216; Henry VII.’s Chapel, 220-227, 311. Westminster Hall, i. 314; ii. 324. Whitby Abbey, i. 201; rere-arch windows, 286. Wilfrid, St., ii. 31, 99. Willis, Professor, on vaulting, i. 344; ii. 156, 202, 217, 219; history of Canterbury Cathedral, 28, 66; St. Stephen’s at Caen, 66; York, 103. Winchelsea, choir at, i. 343. Winchester Cathedral, i. 202; ii. 103, 115, 128; eastern chapels, i. 127, 144, 286; as rebuilt in the reign of Edgar, ii. 33; gallery across transepts, 66; capitals in the crypt, 85; transepts, aisles of, 89, 105; piers of transepts, 105; capitals, arch-orders, windows, etc., 106; triforium piers, _ibid._; central tower, 107; crypt, _ibid._; nave, 108, 214; western portals, 216. Window-glass, i. 19.