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130 130 ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. Part 11. proportion generally aimed at, though of course it was often modi- fied by circumstances. In England the larger churches generally reached the proportion of 6 times their width for their length. Most of our cathedrals have been so altered and modified by subsequent additions that it is difficult now to trace their original arrangements; but Norwich exists in ])lan almost exactly as originally erected (a.d. ^Ip-'ffe^C 566. Plan of Norwicli Cathedral. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. 1096-1135), as will be seen from the plan (Woodcut No. 566). The naA^e to the west of the intersection is more than 4 times its width (70 X 295). The rectangular part of the choir is more than a square, and with the apse and its aisle, exclusive of the chapels, makes alto- gether a length of 410 ft. internally, or nearly 6 squares. At Peter- borough and Ely the proportion seems to have been as 5 to 1 to the centre of the apse ; but if there was a circumscribing aisle or chapel,.