ABSTRACT
The author has discussed elsewhere how a two-storeyed hall block became the norm on the Continent by the tenth century, the lead perhaps being given by the German emperors. With a monastic cathedral there was a precedent for the abbot to live in the west range and this evidently influenced Lanfranc at Canterbury. The murder of Becket in the cathedral was described in several accounts that are contemporary or almost so set out by Professor Barlow in his life of Becket with some guidance on recent discoveries by Tim Tatton-Brown. At Norwich the palace was set by Bishop Losinga, the first bishop after the move from Thetford, against the north wall of the nave between the fourth and fifth bays from the transept. It is aslant to the nave wall which cuts off its south-west corner as though the nave were later than the palace.
