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CH. xxvn] ENGLAND NORMAN PERIOD 211of ritual arrangement ; and if we compare the plan of Resem-apeter'sS. Peter's (v. supra vol. i. p. 19, Fig. 2) with that of s.the Saxon church at atRomeCanterbury which Willis has constructedfrom Edmer's account (Fig. 127),it would seemto be confined to the presbytery, which Edmer tells uswas raised over a crypt or confessionary like S. Peter's,and had tofrom the choir ofbe reached by many stepsFig. 127.the singers. This chorus cantorum was in the nave likethose at S. Clemente and S. Maria in Cosmedin in Romeand the excavated basilica of Salona in Dalmatia 1 . Thetwo flanking towers have nothing in common withS. Peter's. At the west end Edmer tells us was thealtar of the Virgin,raised some height and reached byand behind itagainst the wall was the Pontificalsteps,1Chorus psallentium in aulam ecclesiae porrigebatur, decenti fabrica afreqiientia turbae seclusus. Edmer, cited Willis. 142