No central vaults ever existed, and the design above the pier arcade is the same as at Fountains. It is simply heavy Norman work with pointed arches substituted in some places for round ones.
Thus far in England, though the Cathedrals of Senlis and Noyon were now building across the Channel, there is nothing more advanced towards Gothic. But on the contrary, even
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later than this time, such important works as the Galilee of Durham,[1] the naves of Peterborough and Ely, and many other buildings, were constructed in the unmodified Norman style. No important structural change extending through a whole edifice is manifest in England till William of Sens begins that rebuilding of the choir of Canterbury to which I have referred. And even this building, though a very beau-
- ↑ The Galilee of Durham is usually classed, by English writers, as transitional. But in structural principles it is Norman of the most primitive type, notwithstanding the slenderness of its columns.
