1. NEEDA
MONA
KAINAAT
ESHA
SADAF
SAMREEN

2. INTRODUCTIO
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1. FEATURES
•PLANS
•OPENING
•WALLS
•ROOFS
•COLOUMNS
•MOULDING
2. ST. JOHNS CHAPEL
3. WESTMINSTER
ABBEY
4.SILLISBURY
CATHEDRAL
IFFLEY CHURCH

3. •COUNTRIES UNDER
BRITISH ISLES:
England, Scotlnd, Wales and
Northern Ireland
•Also known as NORMAN
PERIOD.
•TIME PERIOD:1066-1154
•RELIGION:Christianity,They
were famed for their Christian
piety
Norman expansion by 1130

4. ST ALBAN’S ABBEY
THE NAVE WAS CONSIDERABLY LENGTHENED FROM THE
SAXON PERIOD, AND TRANSEPTS WERE EMPLOYED, WITH
USUALLY A TOWER AT THE CROSSING.
THE TOWERS ARE SQUARE AND MASSIVE, AS AT S.ALBAN'S
ABBEY

5. ST. ALBAN ABBEY
DEER HUST CHURCH
SQUARE RECESSES, KNOWN AS "ORDERS. USUALLY SMALL, NARROW
AND DEEPLY SPLAYED, WITH SEMICIRCULAR HEADS
SINGLE LIGHTS, BUT DOUBLE WINDOWS DIVIDED BY A SHAFT
THREE OPENINGS,ARE SOMETIMES GROUPED TOGETHER
DOORWAYS ARE DEEPLY RECESSED AND RICHLY ORNAMENTED WITH
ZIGZAG AND BEAKHEAD`

6. CAEN CHURCH
VERY THICK WALLS OFTEN CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE
MASONRY, THE CORE BEING IMPERFECTLY BONDED WITH THE FACING.
HIEGHTS ARE EQUIVALENT FROM NAVE ARCADE TRIFORIUM AND
CLEARSTORY
PASSAGE WAS OFTEN FORMED BETWEEN THE CLERESTORY WINDOW AND
THE TRIPLE ARCH CARRYING THE INSIDE OF THE WALL, A METHOD ALSO
ADOPTED IN THE CHURCHES AT CAEN.

7. THE ROOF-TRUSSES
WERE OF OPEN
TIMBER, AND HAVING AN
INCLINATION OF FORTYFIVE DEGREES
THE COVERING BEING OF
LEAD OR SHINGLES.
THE SIMPLE FRAMING IS
EITHER LEFT
EXPOSED, OR HAS A FLAT
CEILING BOARDED AND
DECORATED.

8.  COLOUMNS ARE LOW, MASSIVE, AND EITHER
POLYGONAL OR CIRCULAR
CAPITALS WERE IONIC AND CORINTHIAN

9. Corinthian capital at Pisa church
Mains cathedral-Germany
Hollow core columns filled
with rubble-at Malmesbury
Abbey
Capital at Church of San Martini

10. THE ORNAMENTED
MOULDINGS, AS THE CHEVRON OR
ZIGZAG, BILLET, BEAK-HEAD, NAILHEAD, BOWTEL, OR ROLL
MOULDING.
Lincoln cathedral
Martini church mouldings

11. STAINED GLASS WAS USED LATER ON
Oldest stained glass
windows in Situ
Canterbury cathedralshowing Christ ancestors.
King Otto at
Strasbourg
cathedral

12. •ST. JOHN'S CHAPEL IS LOCATED IN THE TOWER OF
LONDON. DATING FROM 1080, THIS COMPLETE 11THCENTURY CHURCH IS THE OLDEST CHURCH IN LONDON.
Tower of London

13. ST. JOHN’S CHAPEL
•A ROMANESQUE CHAPEL, ST. JOHN'S IS ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF
THE WHITE TOWER, WHICH WAS BUILT IN 1077–97 AS A KEEP OR
CITADEL, THE OLDEST PART OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR'S
POWERFUL FORTRESS.

14. FLOOR PLAN OF ST. JOHN
PLAN OF BASILICA OF ST.
JOHN

15. • IT WAS CONSTRUCTED FROM
STONE IMPORTED
FROM FRANCE, AND HAS A
TUNNEL-VAULTED NAVE WITH
AN EAST APSE AND GROINVAULTED AISLES, AND THE
GALLERY ABOVE CURVES
AROUND THE APSE.
•THICK, ROUND PIERS
SUPPORT UNMOULDED
ARCHES, NOTABLE FOR THEIR
SIMPLICITY, WITH SIMPLE
CARVINGS OF SCALLOP AND
LEAF DESIGNS PROVIDING
THE ONLY DECORATION.

16. SALISBURY CATHEDRAL FROM SOUTH WEST.

17. •ERECTED ON A LEVEL
SITE, SURROUNDED BY
THE GREEN SWARD OF A
WIDE CLOSE, BROKEN
ONLY BY A
FEW ELM TREES.
•CONSTRUCTED FROM
1220-1258
•TALLEST SPIRE, 404 FEET
HIGH, BEING THE
LOFTIEST IN ENGLAND
•THE PLAN HAS DOUBLE
TRANSEPTS, CENTRAL
TOWER
•THE WEST FACADE IS
WEAK, BUT THERE IS A
FINE NORTH
PORCH, BOLDLY
PROJECTING AND
VAULTED INTERNALLY.

19. NAVE
CHOIR
WINDOW AT

20. CHAPTER,CLOISTER,SOUTH
TRANCEPT
EAST
WEST FACADE
LADY CHAPEL

22. • A Norman Cathedral built
between A.D. 1117 and 1190.
• it is one of the most important
12th-century buildings in England
to have remained largely intact,
despite extensions and
restoration.
•The grand western facade, 158
feet wide, constructed in A.D 1233,
consists of a portico of three
gigantic arches, the full height of
the Cathedral
• The appearance is slightly
asymmetrical, as one of the two
towers that rise from behind the
façade was never completed, but
this is only visible from a distance

24. •The interior is considered
to be the finest in the
Norman style
•The nave aisles only are vaulted
•The nave is covered
with a painted wooden
ceiling of lozengeshaped
compartments, ornam
enting what is
probably
the oldest wooden
roof in England.

25. The apsidal choir is enclosed in a
square chapel of Late Perp ., fan
vaulted, as at
King's College, Cambridge.

26. •A BENEDICTINE MONASTERY
FOUNDED
BY DUNSTAN
• HAS POLYGONAL CHEVET AND
CHAPELS
•HAS THE HIGHEST NAVE IN
ENGLAND
•STRONGLY MARKED FLYING
BUTTRESSES.

27. •THE PLAN CONSISTS OF A NAVE AND
AISLES, TRANSEPTS WITH AISLES, AND EASTERN
CHEVET,
SURROUNDED ORIGINALLY BY FIVE CHAPELS.

29. VAULTING ON NAVE
• THE PRESENT STRUCTURE THE EASTERN PORTION WAS MADE BY
HENRY III. -A.D. 1220-1260.
•THE FOUR BAYS WEST OF THE TRANSEPT – DURINGING 1260-1269
•THE NAVE WAS COMPLETED IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
•THE SHRINES, CHANTRY CHAPELS, TOMBS, AND MONUMENTS ARE
EXCEPTIONALLY FINE.
•THE CLOISTERS, IN THE USUAL POSITION TO THE SOUTH OF NAVE,
HAVE
OPEN TRACERY AND ELABORATE VAULTING

30. Henry VII Vault detail
• THE WESTERN TOWERS - A.D. 17221740, BY WREN AND HAWKSMOOR, AND
HENRY VII.
• THE CHAPEL WAS ADDED BY HENRY VII.
AND IS REMARKABLE FOR ITS ELABORATE
FAN VAULT.
Western Towers with
flying buttresses