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 NOTICES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS. 203 continued during the first quarter of the sixteenth century, though not without symptoms of a change even before the close of the fifteenth. " 6. In the sixteenth century, the Roman style was revived, and the period was called the Renaissance. In Italy it was called Cinque Cento, from the change having begun in the fifteenth century." — (P. 1-3.) There can be no doubt that the style called Anglo-Saxon, the character- istic details of which are described and figured in p. 26 to 30, is earlier than, and in many respects essentially different from, that introduced about the time of the Conquest ; but that many of our buildings of that style were erected very shortly before that event, and some subsequently, is equally certain. " The ordinary parish churches which required rebuilding must have been left to the Saxons themselves, and were probably built in the same manner as before, with such slight improvements as they might have gleaned from the Norman works. We have a strong confirmation of this in the city of Lincoln ; the Conqueror having taken possession of about a quarter of the old city to build a castle upon, and Bishop Remigius having purchased nearly another quarter to build a cathedral and monastery, the Saxon inhabitants were driven down the hill on which the old city stands, and took possession of some swampy land at the foot of the hill, which they drained, and redeemed from the fens or marshes, of which nearly all the low country then consisted. On this new land they built several churches. One of these, St. Peter's at Gowts, or at the Sluices, remains nearly entire ; and St. Mary le Wigford has retained the tower built at this period. This is an important and interesting fact in the history of architecture, as it confirms what was before only a natural supposition, and it enables us to fill up a gap. We appeared to have scarcely any parish churches of the early Norman period, but it is now evident that many of the long list of churches called Saxon belong to a period subsequent to the Conquest."— (P. 33-34.) The latter part of the eleventh century is, not without reason, pronounced to be a transitorial period. In the few works re- maining to us, we observe that variety, not to say uncertainty, of character which we might expect at such a period. The specimens cited are, the Chapel in the White Tower, London ; part of the nave of Rochester Cathedral, built by Bishop Gundulph ; the nave and tran- septs of Ely, by Abbot Simeon, brother to Bishop Walkelyn ; part of the west front of Lincoln, by Bishop Remigius, between 1085 and 1002 ; the crypt and transepts of Winchester, by Bishop Walkelyn ; the crypt of Worcester ; the crypt, the arches of the nave, Cliapel in Uie White Tower, London, a.d. 1081.