Later Anglo-Saxon architecture, such as that of Eadward's magnificent abbey church at Westminster (afterwards destroyed by Henry III.

to make way for his own building), was not inferior to continental workmanship.

All the arts practised in the abbeys were of direct Roman origin, and most of the words relating to them are immediately derived from the Latin.

This is the case even with terms relating to such common objects as _candle_, _pen_, _wine_, and _oil_.

Names of weights, measures, coins, and other exact quantitative ideas are also derived from Roman sources.