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CH. xxvn] ENGLAND NORMAN PERIOD 233Gloucester, and the triforium isquite unimportant, Tewicespinchedup against the uryclerestory window-sill. Theclerestory however is not original, and the Normandesign may have been different. The magnificent westfront with its deeply recessed arch of many orders andits two piquant pinnacles, together with the grand centraltower over the crossing make this one of the very finestexamples of Romanesque architecture in existence(Fig-HEREFORD and MALVERN have the same massive Herefordcylindrical columns with simple round capitals that at;MaivemHereford however having attached shafts on one side andsurface carving on the ovolo of the capital. At Malmes- Maimesburythe round capitals are scolloped in imitation of the Abbeycushion form, and there is a similar capital, still furtherenriched, at ABBEY DORE in Herefordshire.These cylindrical columns with a plain or nearly plainround capital at Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Malvern,Hereford, Abbey Dore, and Malmesbury, seem to forma distinctive west country type differing In many particularsfrom the cylindrical columns already noticed atDurham, Norwich, and Waltham, and others at Fountains,Buildwas, and S. Bartholomew's in Smithfield.1drawing.I am indebted to Mr Raffles Davison for leave to reproducehis beautiful