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212 ENGLAND NORMAN PERIOD [CH. xxvnCanter- chair 1 . Willis conjectures that this implies a westernuryapse, which may have been the original presbytery beforeorientation became the rule.i11The new Lanfranc's new cathedral was a basilica endingin ancathedral .,apse with transepts, and a central tower over the crossing.On the east of each transept was an apsidal chapel, and thewhole plan was very like that at Westminster (Fig. 128).Willis observes that the dimensions of the new Cathedralso far as can be ascertained, correspond very closely withthose of S.Etienne at Caen, of which Lanfranc had beenthe first abbot, and which was built under his direction.Nothinghowever is now to be seen of Lanfranc'sanfranc tojo-wj] *ffrnuff* Ce?irw)CANTERBURY,CATHEDRAL.Fig. 128.cathedral but a few patches of masonry opposite thespot where Becket fell. The choir was pulled downtwenty years after its completion and re-built on a muchgrander scale by Priors Ernulf and Conrad betweenglorious 1096 and i no. To them we owe all the Norman worknow visible above ground (Plate CXLI), and the greaterpart of the crypt. In the slender jamb-shafts of thewindows and the rich interlacing wall-arcades we see an1 Ad hoc altare cum sacerdos ageret divina mysteria faciem ad populumqui deorsum stabat ad orientem versam habebat.Edmer, cited Willis.