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CH. xxvn] ENGLAND NORMAN PERIOD 231The details show progress in refinement. The Petertriforiumarches are graceful and prettily decorated, and cathedralthe aisle vaults have diagonal as well as transverse ribsof a heavy roll section. The nave retains its paintedwooden ceiling of Norman times.The columns are massive and have attached colon -nettes, some of them rising as vaulting shafts, otherscarrying the several orders of the arches, but inmanycases, where the correspondenceof order and shaft isnot observed, the cushion capitals, which are universal inthe Norman part, are broken out for the orders,the main pier below remains a plainthoughcylinder or octagon(Fig. 134),The lofty proportion of the triforium stage which hasbeen noticed at Winchester and other Norman churchesis maintained here, though the gradationof the threestoreys is more pleasing at Peterborough.At GLOUCESTER on the other hand, which was begunGloucesterby Abbot Serlo in 1089, and dedicated in noo much **greater importance is given to the nave arcade ;it attainsa stately proportion at the expense of the triforium, whichis diminished to very small coupled lightsunder anincluding arch (Plate CLI), The columns are enormouscylinders built of small masonry and with plainround capitals,which are neither moulded nor carved,but devoid of any ornamentation. From these capitalseffect, if a littleall the orders of the arch spring, unprepared for byanything below, and are decorated with plain roll mouldings,zigzags, and billets. The generalsevere and cold, is extremely impressive.TEWKESBURY Abbey has the same huge cylindricalcolumns in the nave, with plain round unornamented urycapitals, and arches of still simpler detail than those at