Part 11

Almenèches, 139 et seq.; its church, 150, 151; site of the castle, 152

Ambrières, fortress of, 57, 229; architectural significance of its church, 230

Amiens, 8, 9, 23, 24, 47

Architecture in Normandy, its points of likeness with that of England, 23, 27, 28, 31, 46; Romanesque, at Bayeux, 28, 29; at Exmes, 147; at Le Mans, 206, 207, 209; transitional period well marked in Fécamp Abbey, 48

Argentan, 125-138

Arletta [Herleva], mother of William the Conqueror, 10

Arnulf of Montgomery, 141, 142

Arques, fortress of Count William at, 59, 60; battle of, 60

Avranches, historical associations of, 75; its position, ib., 81, 82; its ecclesiastical territory merged in the diocese of Coutances, 81

Barbe, M. Henri, quoted, 191, 194, 196

Bayeux, retention of the Danish tongue and religion at, 2, 6; Richard the Fearless educated at, ib.; Saxon and Danish colonies at, 5, 6; its cathedral church, 8, 22-30; the seminary chapel, 8, 30; compared with Coutances, 25-28; Bishop Odo's work at, 26, 28; later Romanesque at, 29; its English character, 30

Beaumont-le-Roger, 179 et seq.

Beaumont-le-Vicomte, castle and church, 234, 235

Beauvais, 9, 23, 24

Bernay, Judith's Abbey at, 8, 182, 188

Bigod, use of the name, 105

Brionne, character of the building, 97, 98

Caen, 2; its ecclesiastical buildings, 8; destruction of churches at, 19; burial-place of William the Conqueror, 51

Cæsaris Burgus, 67. See Cherbourg

Calleva, its fall, 199. See Silchester

Carentan, 72

Castles, beginning of in England, 14; in Normandy, earlier and later sites of, 58; question as to the earliest date of stone castles in Normandy, 97

Caudebec, Teutonic origin of the name, 6

Cerisy, 8

Chandos, Sir John, building of the keep of St. Saviour attributed to, 71

Channel Islands, their relation to England, 65

Chartres, contrasted with Le Mans, 200 et seq.; its historical associations, 202, 203; architectural features of its cathedral church, 203, 204; why it differs from Le Mans, 204; its height, 207; its secondary churches, 209

Cherbourg, name probably cognate with Scarborough, 68