Front of Iffley Church

Very few examples remain of important Norman façades in their original form, nearly all of these having been altered after the round arch was displaced by the pointed arch in the latter part of the twelfth century. Iffley Church is a good example of the style.

Keywords

Cathedral architecture, Romanesque, facade, Norman architecture, iffley church front, round arch

Galleries

Romanesque Architecture

Source

A. D. F. Hamlin College Histories of Art History of Architecture (New York, NY: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915)

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