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Although the Romanesque architects had solved the greatest problem of the Middle Ages, viz. how to vault throughout with stone a clerestoried church, Basilican in plan, without the aid of the pointed arch, yet the employment of the pointed arch greatly facilitated building construction.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Perp. windows in the aisles, the clerestoried Norman nave and the Norman font.
Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901
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The church stands between the town and the station (G.E.R.); it has a good Perp. screen between the clerestoried Dec. nave and the chancel, and a large canopied piscina in the N. aisle.
Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901
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