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If you are interested in the story of the Norman reconstruction of institutional architecture in England, there is a quick overview in Garnett's The Norman Conq
by wrp 4y ago
If you are interested in the story of the Norman reconstruction of institutional architecture in England, there is a quick overview in Garnett's The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction. (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/5056609-the-norman-conquest https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/5056609-the-norman-co...)
From the book:
...within fifty years of 1066 every English cathedral church and most major abbeys had been razed to the ground, and rebuilt in a new continental style, known to architects as 'Romanesque'. (p. 10)
...No English cathedral retains any masonry above ground which dates from before the Conquest. (p. 11)
...Old England, in an architectural sense, had been eradicated. (p. 12)