Romanesque style is retained through the whole of the thirteenth century, appearing conspicuously in Salisbury, in the Presbytery of Lincoln, and in many other buildings.
FIG. 153.Internal string-courses do not much differ in profile from those of the exterior, except that the drip-stone form is not always so fully developed in them. A characteristic early example is that shown at e, Fig. 152, which is the string at the level of the window sills in the aisle of the choir of Lincoln. The drip form, however, frequently occurs, as at f, the triforium string of the same choir.
In arch mouldings the Anglo-Norman architects displayed a singular predilection for multiplicity of members varying in profile and separated from each other by deep hollows. In this way a considerable effect of lightness was given to arches that were really very massive. Even in the most purely Norman buildings in England, such as St. Albans, Norwich, Romsey, Ely, Peterborough, and others, the fondness for multiplicity of parts in arch sections is shown by the employment of at least three orders in the main arches, and these orders are not uncommonly again subdivided. This multiplication of orders naturally led to the circular impost section, to which the round abacus was not seldom adjusted, as at Southwell (Fig. 153). And in the early pointed style the round section was soon introduced into each separate order by new arrangements of the rounds, hollows, and fillets, into which these orders were subdivided. One of the distinctly Anglo-Norman peculiarities of arch mouldings appears for the first time, so far as I know, in the hollow which is given to the soffit of the sub-order of the pier arcade in the nave of Malmesbury Abbey (Fig. 154).
