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230 ENGLAND NORMAN PERIOD [CH,xxvnEistowPeter-Abbot Paul pulled down.Among them are manyof thebalusters which have already been noticed as peculiar toSaxon architecture.On a smaller scale the same simple unadorned Normanshown in the fine church of ELSTOW nearconstruction isBedford (Plate CL) where the square-ordered archesspring from a mere impost moulding, without even theusual cushion capitalPETERBOROUGH was not begun till 1 1 1 8, and the navewas not finished till the end of the I2th century. It ispractically a Norman church still, though the primitivestyle of the nave at a period when elsewhere the style waschanging into Early English is apparently an archaicism.The western part of the nave in fact was hardly finishedin the Norman style before the well-known west frontwas begunin the Early Pointed manner. The church isbasilican, and ended eastward in three apses like theoriginal plan at Durham, The central apse still exists,though a good deal altered to make it harmonize withthe Perpendicular retro-choir at the east end.