ii. 153, 170, 214, 247;

converted into groined vaults, i. 55; main arches of, changed to pointed arches, 58; half-barrel vaults, St. Stephen’s, Caen, ii. 67; twin or parallel, 154.

Bartholomew’s, St., Priory Church, Smithfield, i. 313; ii, 324.

Barton-upon-Humber, ii. 53; western porch, 24, 53.

Barton, Earl’s, tower, ii. 52.

Base mouldings, sections of, i. 150; of buildings, 164, 249; to piers, ii. 80; of a wall, 84; Norman, 85.

Bases, i. 146, 150.

Basilica, Christianised Roman, i. 39, 51, 337; converted into a vaulted structure, 71; Roman, 48; windows of, 54; St. Peter’s, Rome, ii. 28, 29; secular, 20; at Ripon, built by St. Wilfrid, 32.

Basilica Jovis, i. 338.

Basilican style, i. 41; early, in southern Italy, 337.

Bath Abbey, ii. 220.

Battle Abbey, gateway at, i. 343.

Battle Abbey, roll of, ii. 124.

Bay-windows, i. 265.

Bays, oblong, i. 57, 62; square, ii. 163, 177, 205.

Beaudon, Bishop, i. 88.

Beauvais, old church at, i. 41, 129, 326; basse-œuvres, ii. 12.

Beddington Hall, i. 314.

Bede’s description of early Irish remains, ii. 13, 21, 30, 59.

Belfries, windows of, i. 161; towers of, 258.

Bell-towers, i. 147; Anglo-Saxon, ii. 52.

Benedictine order, ii. 33, 58.

Benet’s, St., Cambridge, bell-tower, ii. 52.

Beni Hassan, rock-cut tombs at, ii. 298.

Bernasconi, i. 189.

Bernay, Duchess Judith’s church at, ii. 14; abbey church at, 65.

Bernward, Bishop, i. 43.

Bertha, Queen, ii. 27.

Beverley Minster, i. 200.

Birinus, St., ii. 33, 104.

Biscop, Benedict, works of, ii. 30, 48.

Blois, St. Nicolas at, i. 196.

Blois, Henry de, brother to King Stephen, founder of St. Cross, near Winchester, i. 111, 120.

Bloxam’s “Principles of Gothic Architecture,” ii. 56.

Bonnet-arched windows, i. 278; ii. 37, 54.

Books, how to be studied from, i. 334; historical knowledge from, 334.

Bosses, ii. 177, 194; in England, 195, 210.

Boss-stones having the plan of the intersecting ribs drawn on them, ii. 212.

Bouet, M., of Caen, history of St. Stephen’s, Caen, ii. 64.

Bourges Cathedral, i. 18, 93, 141; enclosing arches at, 161; vaulting to the apsidal aisle, ii. 203.

Boxgrove Priory, i. 202.

Bradford, Wilts, church at, ii. 46.

Bramante, ii. 280.

Brass-work, i. 20, 22, 345.

Brecon Priory, choir of chancel and windows in, i. 286.

Brick, use of, i. 20; houses, 21; architecture of the north, 328.

Bridlington Priory, transitional capital from, i. 122; cloisters at, 230.

Britain, prehistoric, ii. 3.

British, ancient, churches, ii. 18; square ended churches, _ibid._

Britton’s “Antiquities,” ii. 56.

Brixworth Church, ii. 19, 32, 36, 39, 58; towers at, 40.

Broughton Church, Oxfordshire, i. 283.

Bruges, market halls at, i. 266.

Brunelleschi, ii. 280.

Brunswick, timber street fronts at, i. 21; treasuries at, 328.

Buddhist architecture, i. 8.

Buildwas Abbey, i. 105.

Burges, Mr., on metal work, i. 345.

Burgh, Norfolk, chancel of, i. 279.

Bury St. Edmund’s, i. 343; ii. 54, 112, 114, 121.

Buttress, i. 19, 64, 147, 236, 256, 258; pilaster-like, 49; arched, 53; flying, 59; continuous arched, 53; angle, Norwich, ii. 118.

Byzantine architecture, i. 336; earliest Christian style, 10, 11, 39;