Benedict's Church, Cambridge; and also triangular-headed windows, which,
with doorways of the same form, will be presently noticed.
[Illustration: Anglo-Saxon Single-light Window, Tower of Wyckham Church,
Berks.]
Q. Of what description are the arches which separate the nave from the
chancel and aisles, and sustain the clerestory walls?
[Illustration: Anglo-Saxon Arches, St. Michael's Church, St. Alban's, A. D.
948.]
A. They are very plain, and consist of a single sweep or soffit only,
without any sub-arch, as in the Norman style; and they spring from square
piers; with a plain abacus impost on each intervening, which impost has
sometimes the under edge chamfered, and sometimes left quite plain. Arches
of this description occur at Brixworth Church, between the nave and
chancel of Clapham Church, and between the nave and chancel of Wyckham
Church. The arches in St. Michael's Church, St. Alban's, which divide the
nave from the aisles, have their edges slightly chamfered. There are also
arches with single soffits, which have over them a kind of hood, similar
to that over doorways of square-edged rib-work, projecting a few inches
from the face of the wall, carried round the arch, and either dying into
the impost or continued straight down to the ground.
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