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abacus aisles angles arcades beautiful belong Beverley Minster Bishop building built buttresses called Canterbury Canterbury Cathedral capitals Castle Cathedral chamfer chancel Chapel character chiefly choir clere-storey cloisters College Corbel-tables crockets crypt Decorated style door doorways earlier earliest Early English style early Norman east end east window England examples feature fillet flat foliage Fotheringhay frequently Gothic Architecture groined Hall Henry Iffley instances Irthlingborough JEWITT Kidlington late Norman later period Lincoln masonry Middleton Stoney mixture moldings mullions nave niches Norman period Norman style Northants original orna ornament Oxford Oxon panelling parapet parish church Perpendicular style pillars pinnacles plain pointed arch porch quadrangle racter Raunds rebuilt remains rich Rickman Romsey Abbey roof round Saxon sculpture sedilia shafts shallow shew side sometimes spire square stone storey tooth-ornament tower tracery transepts transition triforium twelfth century usually vault Wadham College wall west end west front Westminster Abbey William Winchester Winchester Cathedral wooden Yorkshire
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Page 174 - THE GENERAL APPEARANCE of Decorated buildings is at once simple and magnificent; simple from the small number of parts, and magnificent from the size of the windows, and the easy flow of the lines of tracery. In the interior of large buildings we find great breadth, and an enlargement of the clerestory windows, with a corresponding diminution of the triforium, which is now rather a part of the clerestory opening than a distinct member of the division. The roofing, from the increased richness of the...
Page 248 - The tracery is of rather early form, and the whole is a very incongruous mixture. In the east and west windows even the tracery is altered, and the oval form introduced, so that this may be taken as one of the last and most curious examples of the decline of Gothic before its extinction. The roof of the chapel, which is a kind of hammer-beam with fan-vaulting above, was brought from the chapel of St. Mary's College, which formerly stood in the Corn Market, and which was founded by Henry VI. in 1435....
Page 26 - Winchester, the blood dripping from it all the way. Here it was committed to the ground within the tower, attended by many of the nobility, though lamented by few.
Page 28 - He was a prelate of great mind, and spared no expense towards completing his designs, especially in buildings, which may be seen in other places, but more particularly at Salisbury and at Malmesbury. For there he erected extensive edifices, at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty; the courses of stone being so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block.
Page 26 - Next year,* the tower fell ; though I forbear to mention the different opinions on this subject, lest I should seem to assent too readily to unsupported trifles, more especially as the building might have fallen, through imperfect construction, even though he had never been buried there.
Page 35 - You must know however, good reader, that I never saw the choir of Lanfranc, neither have I been able to meet with any description of it.
Page 14 - Conqueror to execute much masons' work with their own hands. Nor were the Norman monks established in sufficient numbers to be able to superintend all the at the time of the Conquest; their work was more highly finished, had more ornament, and they used fine-jointed masonry, while the Normans used wide-jointed...