A B C of Gothic Architecture

32 THE NOEMAN" PERIOD,
about half a century later. The nave of Norwich was
built between 1122 and 1145: the work is still very
plain, being in continuation of the previous work.
Castor Church, IS'orthamptonshire,bears an inscription
recording its dedication in 1124: the tower is good,
rich Norman work; the ornaments are the hatched,
the square billet,and the scollop,all of very simple
character,shallow, and easilyworked. Pure ess Abbey
was founded in 1127, but very little of the original
work remains. In Canterbury Cathedral,the work of
Prior Ernulf, under St. Anselm, was completed in 1130,
and part of Rochester,where Ernulf had become bishop,
in the same year ; so that we need not be surprisedat
findingmore ornament in these two cathedrals than is
quiteconsistent with the usual character of early IS'orman
work, and the same ornaments repeated
in both
these churches. St. Martin's priory at Dover was
founded in 1131 ; the refectory is still standing, and is
a good example of plain Norman work, neither very
earlynor very late.
The small ISTorman church of Newhaven in Sussex
is unusuallyperfect, and gives a good general
idea of
a parish church of the twelfth century. At first sight
it looks earlier than it is; the bold projectionof the
buttresses indicates a later period,earlyNorman buttresses
are very flatțhe greater the projectionthe later