both in the choir which forms the present church, and in that portion of the nave which remains, it seems probable that these pointed arches were altered at the time the clerestory was rebuilt: this opinion is strengthened by the character of the ornaments in the spandrels, which are quite Early English.

1133. Porchester church, Hampshire. Monasticon, vol. vi. p. 243. A priory of canons of the order of St. Augustine was founded by king Henry I. within the walls of Porchester castle. It was removed about twenty years afterwards to Southwick, but the church which they had built in the castle still remains.

Style-Norman. The west front is particularly fine, and in good preservation. The font is of the same period, ornamented with intersecting arcades. 1133. Garendon, or Gerondon abbey, in Leicestershire, founded. Chron. Petriburg., and Monasticon, vol. v. p. 328.

1134. Swineshed abbey, in Lincolnshire, founded by Robert de Gresley. Chron. Petriburg., and Monasticon, vol. v. p. 245. See also Beck's History and Antiquities of the Abbey of Furness, p. 129.

1134. Monastery of the Holy Rood at Vienna, in Austria, founded.

Style-Romanesque. For engravings see Heideloff's Architectural Ornaments, IV. 1.

1135. The cathedral of Ferrara, in Italy, erected, as appears from the following inscription placed on the front of it.

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ANNO MILLENO CENTENO • TER QVOQVE • DENO

QVINQVE SVPERLATIS STRVITVR DOMVS HEC PIETATIS.
ARTIFICEM GNARVM' QVI SCVLPSERIT HEC・ NICOLAVM
HVC CONCVRRENTES LAVDENT PER SECVLA GENTES.

See Calogierà, Opuscoli, tom. vi. p. 493.

1135. The abbey of Buildewas, in Shropshire, founded by Roger bishop of Chester. Chron. Petriburg., and Monasticon, vol. v.

p. 355.

Style-Rich Norman.

Brackets, vol. iii. Pl. 12.

1135. Kloster Heilbronn, Germany, founded. Style-Romanesque. For engravings, see Heideloff's Architectural Ornaments, I. 4, and VII. 3, 4.

1135. The Cistercian abbey of Stratford Langthorne, Essex, founded by William de Montfichet. Monasticon, vol. v. p. 586.

This foundation, under the same year, is recorded also in the Chronicon Petriburgense, but instead of Stratford, the editions read erroneously Stanford.

1135, vel circa. The cathedral of Tuam in Ireland, of which, however, the chancel only now remains. Petrie's Ecclesiastical Architecture in Ireland, vol. i. p. 311.

1135-1148. Castle Acre priory church, Norfolk. Britton's Architectural Antiquities, vol. iii. p. 10.

Style-Rich Norman.

Arcades, vol. iii. Plates 1 and 3.

THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OF THE TIME

OF HENRY 1.

Capital, Steetley chapel, Derbyshire, vol. i.

p.
83.

Doorway and Pillar, St. Margaret's at Cliff, Kent, vol. ii. Plates 44 and 106.

Doorway, Essendine church, Rutlandshire, vol. iii. Pl. 30. Tower, Little Saxham church, Suffolk, vol. iii. Pl. 38, fig. 6.

1136. Ford abbey in Devonshire, founded by Richard de Brioniis. Monasticon, vol. v. p. 376. In the Chron. Petriburg. this foundation is mentioned under the previous year.

1136. The monastery of Melros in Scotland restored, and given to the Cistercian monks by David king of the Scots. Chron. Petriburg., and Camden's Britannia, vol. iii. p. 295.

1136. St. Cross church, near Winchester, founded by Henry de Blois, bishop of Winchester, brother to king Stephen. Milner's History of Winchester. Leland and Tanner say that it was founded in 1132. See Monasticon, vol. vi. p. 721.

Style-Rich Norman; part is of later date.

Column, vol. iii. Pl. 22.

Triforium, vol. ii. Pl. 140.

1136. The Cistercian abbey of Wardon, Bedfordshire, founded by Walter de Espec. Chron. Petriburg., and Monasticon, vol. v. p. 369.

1137. The Cistercian abbeys of Thame in Oxfordshire, and of Coggeshall in Essex, founded. Chron. Petriburg.

According to the Monasticon (vol. v. p. 451.) the abbey of Coggeshall was founded by king Stephen and Matilda his queen.

1137-1149. Roger prior of Durham sent to Italy for a specimen of Italian marble to pave the cathedral in the manner of the churches there. The piece of marble was brought, and served afterwards for the monks to grind colours on.

Dunelm., cap. lxxv.

Reginald.

1139. The Cistercian abbeys of Kirksted and Louth Park in Lincolnshire, and of Kingswood in Wiltshire, founded. Chron. Petriburg., and Monasticon, vol. v. pp. 413, 416, and 424.

1139. The abbey of Austin canons at Thornton upon the Humber, founded by William le Gros, earl of Albemarle. Chron. Petriburg., and Monasticon, vol. vi. p. 324.

1139. The priory of Sempringham, in Lincolnshire, founded by Sir Gilbert de Sempringham. Chron. Petriburg., and Monasticon, vol. vi. p. 947.

1139-1143. The Martorana church at Palermo, built by George Antiochenus, high admiral to Roger king of Sicily, as proved by a Greek inscription still existing in it. Serradifalco, Il Duomo di Monreale, etc. p. 34, Plates xxiii. and xxiv.; and Gally Knight's Normans in Sicily, p. 259; and Illustrations, Pl. 15.

1140. The Cistercian abbey of Pipwell, in Northamptonshire, founded by William Batevileyn. Chron. Petriburg., and Monasticon, vol. v. p. 431.

1140-1144. The abbey of St. Denis, near Paris, repaired, and a great part rebuilt by abbot Suger. Gallia Christ., tom. vii.

coll. 336, 372, 373.

Style-Transition from Norman.

For an engraving of its fine Norman doorway of this date, see the "Moyen Age Monumentale."

1140-1150. The bridge, called "il Ponte dell'Ammiraglio", near Palermo, built by George Antiochenus, who erected the Martorana church. Gally Knight's Normans in Sicily, p. 301, and Illustrations, Pl. 18.

"It is well built with large squared stones, and consists of five plain pointed arches, with one sinking. The centre arch is much the largest."

1141. Lincoln cathedral burnt "in festo Sancti Albani."

Chron. Petriburg.

1141. vel circa. Shobdon church, near Leominster, Herefordshire, built.

For particulars, see Archæological Journal, vol. i. pp. 233-237.

1142. Winchester castle built by king Stephen. Hen. Huntindon. Hist., p. 225, and Rog. de Hoveden Annal., p. 279. v.

1142. Revesby abbey, in Lincolnshire, founded by William de Romare, earl of Lincoln. Chron. Petriburg., and Monasticon, vol. v. p. 453.

1143. The Premonstratensian abbey of Newhouse, or Newsome, in Lincolnshire, founded by Peter de Gausla. Chron. Petriburg., and Monasticon, vol. vi. p. 865.

1143. Byland abbey, in Yorkshire, founded by Roger de Mowbray. Monasticon, vol. v. p. 343.

Some parts of the church still remain, but are of a later date. These remains are the west front and the end of the south transept. Not a pillar of the nave is standing; some parts of the lateral aisles only may be seen. The door is richly ornamented, and the windows, lancet-shaped, are of an elegant form; above which has been a circular one, half of which still remains.

The opposite inscription is cut in a stone on the wall at the end of the remaining transept; but as it is evidently not older than the fifteenth century, and we know no

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thing of the changes which the church had undergone, we give it merely as a curiosity.

1143-1168. The cathedral of Sens, in France, built. Quantin, Notice Historique sur la construction de la Cathédrale de Sens, p. 3, and Bourassée, Cathédrales de France, p. 297.

It has so many peculiarities in common with that part of Canterbury cathedral which was built by William of Sens, that it is supposed to have been erected by the same architect.

1144. St. Mauritius at Cologne. De Lassaulx's Notes, etc., p. 219.

"A small church, and, with few exceptions, consisting almost, as it were, of one piece; built upon arches, and without any kind of buttresses. We still see here the plain pillars with cubical capitals, which, like every thing here, were kept simple, probably for want of money."

1144. Woburn abbey, Bedfordshire, founded by Hugh de Bolebec. Chron. Petriburg., and Monasticon, vol. v. p. 478.

1144. "Hoc eodem anno cœperunt homines prius apud Carnotum (Chartres, in France) carros lapidibus onustos, et lignis, annona, et rebus aliis, suis humeris trahere ad opus ecclesiæ, cujus turres tunc fiebant: quæ qui non vidit, jam similia non videbit." Chron. Normanniæ, p. 982.

The doorway was finished the following year.

Style-Transition from Norman.

For engravings see Moyen Age Monumental."

1146. The castle of Wallingford, in Berkshire, built by king Stephen. Chron. Normanniæ, p. 982, and Rog. de Hoveden Annal.,

p. 280.

1146. Croyland church burnt. multis officinis, concrematur."

"Ecclesia Croylandiæ, cum

Chron. Petriburg.