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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

  • Perp. windows in the aisles, the clerestoried Norman nave and the Norman font.

    Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901

  • 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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