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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 10/02/2025

My stab at The Confessor's Westminster Abbey, begun 1050s and consecrated 1065. Basically we know site of the apse (I have stuck my head under the Cosmati pavement and seen its footings) and the W bays of the nave with cores of W towers that are still inside the current ones.

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Drew Rahere @drybrarian.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"I have stuck my head under the Cosmati pavement and seen its footings.." You have the coolest job of all time. Can I be you when I grow up?

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 10/02/2025

Elevation and missing elements (length of transepts, the echelon-apse plan with enclosed aisle apses) taken from similar-sized Caen, St Étienne begun c. 1066, nave and transepts survive but E arm removed for an Early Normandy Gothic build, c.1180s-1200s (original E arm excavated in the late 1960s)

Overlay of St Étienne, Caen with my transparent plan of the Confessor's Westminster. I made the W towers the same height. The crossing tower I actually did the square root rule, and then matched the height to the tall roof of the crossing lantern (which collapsed in 1566) for no real reason tbh. Monumental apse roof wallplate as halfway up the clerestory is just an educated guess.

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