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of concealed flying buttresses and external pilaster strips. Thus with Wells as with Salisbury there is no real skeleton to the building. Its strength resides in its heavy walls
FIG. 85.
as much as does that of any Romanesque structure. I have likened Salisbury in point of structure to Durham. Wells is in some points strikingly like an even earlier Norman building—that of the Abbaye-aux-Dames at Caen. This likeness is partially illustrated by Figs. 85 and 86—
