Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 2

· 1878

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 …

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