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do not hear of any further attempt to reform the
monks of Durham.
Wickwaine is said by Stubbs to have been "a
great builder of churches, and that the greater part
of the places of worship within his diocese were consecrated
during his archiepiscopate."
Before the end of the thirteenth century we meet
with an important record belonging to the architectural
history of the minster. At the commencement
of that century it was a Norman building, of wellproportioned
scale, the eastern end being in a more
enriched style than the western, but both of the same
architectural type, and thus, as a whole, homogeneous.
But the" Early English transepts which were erected
during Archbishop Gray's episcopate were on a scale
of much greater magnificence, and were doubtless
intended to be the beginning of an entire transformation
of the Church. Professor Willis assigns the
date of 1247 as that of the completion of the transepts.
In 1 291 the foundation-stone of a new nave
was laid by Archbishop Romanus with great pomp
and ceremony, in the presence of the dean and
canons. We learn from Stubbs that it was begun on
the south side towards the east. The wall of the
south aisle, where it joins the Early English transept,
was the starting-point, therefore, of this magnificent
work. The walls of both aisles were probably built
without disturbing at the time the Norman nave, a
plan which, as Professor Willis points out, is recorded
by Gervase as having been adopted at Canterbury.
Of the progress of the new nave we have no written
record except the indulgences granted by successive
prelates during the time in which it was advancing to