ipernity: northumbria churches by Stiffleaf

norham nave 1180

08 Nov 2009

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large boned norman nave, showing how dark such churches were until clerestories were added later. this one is stygian even with its skylights.

norham chancel 1180

08 Nov 2009

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this elevation is evidence of the growth of formal design in norman architecture, with thought gone into the repetition of pilaster buttresses and arched windows

lindisfarne priory

04 Nov 2009

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west front of the c12 monastic church. most such facades gained larger windows in the later middle ages, but the only later work here is for security. two cross slits have been added above the top window

lindisfarne priory

04 Nov 2009

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interior of the c12 west front, with its unusual gallery running across the lower window, and two loops for fortification at the top

lindisfarne priory

04 Nov 2009

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south transept from the east, built in the first part of the c12

lindisfarne priory

04 Nov 2009

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interior of the north transept from the choir

lindisfarne priory

04 Nov 2009

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the church from the n.w., showing the north wall of the nave aisle and the north transept of the beginning of the c12.

lindisfarne cross

01 Nov 2009

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Cross slab prob. from around 700 A.D., now in the museum here

lindisfarne 1135

04 Nov 2009

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founded from durham in the late c11, the arcades show the influence of those there. the high arch is the diagonal rib of the crossing vault; through it can be seen the east end whose apse was squared off in the enlargement of 1150