NORMAN

The highest development of Romanesque architecture in England, which succeeded the Saxon at the Conquest, and admitted the pointed arch which marks the Transition, about 1145. It must be observed, however, that many buildings, generally called Norman, and which agree with the Norman style in all e ential particulars, except in the accident of their being built before 1066, must, architecturally, be cla ed with this style. The Norman is so absolutely distinguished from all Gothic orders by the round arch, that it is needle to enter into its differentials. Several of its peculiarities will be found under the heads Buttre , Capital , Cathedral , Mouldings , Pier , Pillar .