Wanderings in Wessex / An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter

by Edric Holmes

FULL PAGE DRAWINGS

• [Winchester Cathedral Frontispiece]
• [St. Cross]
• [Bargate, Southampton]
• [Corfe Castle]
• [Cerne Abbey Gatehouse]
• [Weymouth Harbour]
• [The Charmouth Road]
• [Ottery Church]
• [Sherborne]
• [Salisbury Cathedral]
• [Stonehenge]
• [Marlborough]

PEN AND INK SKETCHES IN THE TEXT

• [The Dorset Coast—Mupe Bay]
• [Font, Winchester Cathedral]
• [Plan, Winchester Cathedral]
• [Steps from North Transept, Winchester]
• [Gateway, Winchester Close]
• [Winchester College]
• [Statue of Alfred]
• [City Cross, Winchester]
• [West Gate, Winchester]
• [The Church, St. Cross]
• [Romsey Abbey]
• [The Arcades, Southampton]
• [Netley Ruins]
• [On the Hamble]
• [Gate House, Titchfield]
• [The Knightwood Oak in Winter]
• [Lymington Church]
• [Norman Turret, Christchurch]
• [Sand and Pines. Bournemouth]
• [Poole]
• [Wimborne Minster]
• [Julian's Bridge, Wimborne]
• [Cranborne Manor]
• [St. Martin's, Wareham]
• [The Frome at Wareham]
• [Plan of Corfe Castle]
• [Corfe Village]
• [St. Aldhelm's]
• [Old Swanage]
• [Tilly Whim]
• [The Ballard Cliffs]
• [Arish Mel]
• [Lulworth Cove from above Stair Hole]
• [Durdle Door]
• [Puddletown]
• [Dorchester]
• [Napper's Mite]
• [Maiden Castle]
• [Wyke Regis]
• [Old Weymouth]
• [Portland]
• [On the way to Church Ope]
• [Bow and Arrow Castle]
• [Portesham]
• [St. Catherine's Chapel]
• [Beaminster]
• [Eggardon Hill]
• [Bridport]
• [Puncknoll]
• [Chideock]
• [Charmouth]
• [Lyme from the Charmouth Footpath]
• [Lyme Bay]
• [Axmouth from the Railway]
• [Seaton Hole]
• [Beer]
• [The Way to the Sea, Beer]
• [Branscombe Church]
• [Sidmouth]
• [Axminster]
• [Ford Abbey]
• [Tower, Ilminster]
• [Yeovil Church]
• [Montacute]
• [Batcombe]
• [Sherborne Castle]
• [Bruton Bow]
• [Marnhull]
• [Blandford]
• [Milton Abbey]
• [Gold Hill, Shaftesbury]
• [Wardour Castle]
• [Wilton House, Holbein Front]
• [Bemerton Church]
• [Old Sarum]
• [Salisbury Market Place]
• [High Street Gate]
• [Plan of Salisbury Cathedral]
• [Gate, South Choir Aisle]
• [The Poultry Cross, Salisbury]
• [Longford Castle]
• [Downton Cross]
• [Ludgershall Church]
• [Gatehouse, Amesbury Abbey]
• [Amesbury Church]
• [Plan of Stonehenge (restored)]
• [Stonehenge Detail]
• [Enford]
• [Boyton Manor]
• [Longleat]
• [Frome Church]
• [Westbury White Horse]
• [Porch House, Potterne]
• [St. John's, Devizes]
• [Bishop's Cannings]
• [Silbury Hill]
• [Devil's Den]
• [Garden Front, Marlborough College]
• [Cloth Hall, Newbury]
• [Wolverton]
• [The Inkpen Country]
• [Whitchurch]
• [Holy Ghost Chapel, Basingstoke]
• [Basing]
• [Corhampton]
• [Map of Wessex]

ARCHITECTURAL TERMS

The following brief notes will assist the traveller who is not an expert in arriving at the approximate date of ecclesiastical buildings.

SAXON 600-1066. Simple and heavy structure. Very small wall openings. Narrow bands of stone in exterior walls.

NORMAN 1066-1150. Round arches. Heavy round or square pillars. Cushion capitals. Elaborate recessed doorways. Zig-zag ornament.

TRANSITION 1150-1200. Round arched windows combined with pointed structural arch. Round pillars sometimes with slender columns attached. Foliage ornament on capitals.

EARLY ENGLISH 1200-1280 (including Geometrical) Pointed arches. Pillars with detached shafts. Moulded or carved capitals. Narrow and high pointed windows. Later period—Geometrical trefoil and circular tracery in windows.