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236 ENGLAND NORMAN PERIOD [en, xxvraGiastongreatchurch, to which it was joined by a Galilee porch.s" Mary's It was consecrated in 1186 and affords another instancechapelof the conservatism of the monastic orders ;for while atCanterbury English William was building in a style ofadvanced transition towards Early English, this chapel atGlastonbury is round-arched and adorned with interlacingNorman arcades, zigzags, and billet mouldings. Thecapitals alone betray a later taste,for they have discardedthe convex outline of Norman work and adopted theconcave form, and something of the springing characterof the coming cap& crocket of Gothic architecture. TheGiaston- same spirit of archaicism shows itself in the architectureurya eyof the great church which was built after this chapel ; forthough the arches are pointed, and trefoil cusps appear inthe triforium, the mouldings are enriched with the zigzagand billet of the older art.This brings us in fact to the meeting of the two styles,Romanesque and Gothic, and to the end of our period.At Malmesbury, Fountains, and Buildwas though we havethe massive cylindrical columns of the Norman periodAttachtheycarry pointed arches. The round arch neverthetheroundarchless lingered on in unconstructional features, in doorheads,windows, and ornamental arcadings. The monks especiallyloved it best, and clung to it with conservative zeal,though in matters of construction the superior convenienceFountains of the pointed arch could not be denied. At Fountainsythe clerestory windows are round-arched though thearcade below is pointed. The aisles there are vaulted ina very primitive way, by barrel vaults with their axis atright angles to that of the nave, springing from roundarches turned from pier to wallCastor There is no richer exampleof late Norman architecturethan the tower of CASTOR church in Northamptonshire