The dating found here is based on the work of John James, and is meant on this site to serve as a starting point. James' dating is derived from a system that uses his interpretation of the development of capitals over time as the basis for chronology, among other factors. His goal is to refine the dating to within years rather than decades. I have not fully embraced James' methodology, and will be developing this page from its current state to one which is admittedly more conservative. The relative expenditure values found in the Timeline are also based on James' work, and I believe these to be reasonably reliable. They are intended only to give a sense of the amount of work involved in each decade.

I have added the idea of the "project" as a way of separating work in buildings. In my mind, a "project" is a discrete section of work in a building that resulted from the one-time acquisition of funding. "Projects" are generally separated by at least a decade where no work was being done. It is my view that it would have been unwise to start a "project" that could not be finished and protected from the elements, and as such a "project" usually involved a wing or multiple wings of a building, from floor to roof. Rural churches, which could only secure small amounts of funding at irregular intervals, often were the result of many small projects, while the great churches, which benefitted from relatively consistent funding, may have involved only a few large projects.

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Church with nave where presently.

Apse begin lower walls, in plan apse expands, but all bases have been replaced

Apse with openings for transepts in at least two campaigns as there are square imposts to north arm and to south aisle entry while the rest are octagonal and around 12cm higher

Remaining crossing capitals with octagonal imposts, apse, and start of vaults with splayed doubleau arch.

The square impost mason returns for the western crossing piers and profiled doubleau.

Footings for nave walls and while the west wall is parallel to crossing piers within 6 cm, the nave piers not equal, which suggests that the earlier building may have been in the way and the masons worked around it as best they could.

Apse walls completed, circular caps to windows.

South arm, simple arch into aisle

Apse vault

North arm to thin imposts and lower sills

Nave 1-2 piers, very pointed arcade arch

Nave 3-5 piers set lower, and west door. nave clerestory 1-3, small windows,

Nave clerestory 4,

Tower