Saxon Architecture

Saxon Architecture is a variety of the Romanesque. From the fact of the Saxons employing chiefly wood for building purposes, not much of their architecture has corne down to us; but Barnack, Bradford-on-Avon, and Earls Barton churches afford us examples of it. It was rough and massive, characterised by alternate vertical and horizontal position of quoins, and sometimes ornamented on the outside by fillets. The windows were splayed both from within and without.