NORMAN PERIOD 17 CHAPTER VI. TRANSITIONAL PERIOD 21 CHAPTER VII. LANCET PERIOD 25 CHAPTER VIII. GEOMETRICAL PERIOD 29 CHAPTER IX. CURVILINEAR PERIOD 33 CHAPTER X. RECTILINEAR PERIOD 37 LIST OF PLATES. NORMAN PERIOD. _Exterior_ ELY CATHEDRAL Nave. _Interior_ " " " _Exterior_ PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL Choir. _Interior_ " " " TRANSITIONAL PERIOD. _Exterior_ RIPON CATHEDRAL Choir. _Interior_ " " " LANCET PERIOD. _Exterior_ ELY CATHEDRAL Presbytery. _Interior_ " " " _Exterior_ LINCOLN CATHEDRAL Nave. _Interior_ " " " _Exterior_ " " Choir. _Interior_ " " " GEOMETRICAL PERIOD. _Exterior_ LINCOLN CATHEDRAL Presbytery. _Interior_ " " " _Exterior_ LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL Nave. _Interior_ " " " CURVILINEAR PERIOD. _Exterior_ ELY CATHEDRAL Choir. _Interior_ " " " RECTILINEAR PERIOD. _Exterior_ WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL Nave. _Interior_ " " " THE SEVEN PERIODS OF ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. To present at a single glance a comprehensive view of the History of English Church Architecture from the Heptarchy to the Reformation, and to do this in a manner, which, without taxing too seriously the memory of the student, may enable him to fix in his mind the limits, and the general outline of the inquiry he is about to enter upon, is the object of the present treatise.