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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Apse located in centre of new choir, which is may be why later tower was located to the side.

West portal stage I, bonded into south aisle wall.

West portal stage II up to impost,

West gable and nave clerestory with west wall with twin windows and oculus, but cant tell for sure as external stones replaced, but from interior capital and connections between coursing on the inside seem contemporary; cornice interesting.

North wall of choir laid out with start of dado, possibly did not include footings for all choir walls, and was followed a little later with the bases to tower and east of the choir that was placed in second bay to leave old apse in place.

More on north wall, with bases to tower and east with capitals that form a group that seem earlier than south; EN2 under tower passage has corbel and with WN1 crossing pier as capital same as others in the north.

South walls and dado and all walls to lower vaults, began northern tracery and ready to remove existing apse, which may have had 3 chapels in this confined space; the three crossing piers started in separate campaigns; a large campaign that included the tower room over vaultfrom the two slot windows in stairs and that all treads the same.

Three crossing piers; NE2 vault for tower and vault to room over

Gradual completion of windows and the high vaults into the 1260s.