An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture [by J.H. Parker]. |
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abacus Abbey Church afterwards aisles altar angles appears apse arcades architect architecture basilica belong Beverley Minster Bishop brick buildings built buttresses Byzantine called Canterbury capitals Castle Cathedral chapel chapter-house character chiefly choir clerestory cloister crockets crypt cusps Decorated style doorways earlier Early English style Early French early Norman eleventh century England examples feature fifteenth Flamboyant foliage foliated foliated circles France frequently Gothic architecture Gothic style hall Hugh Hugh of Grenoble inscription instances Italy lancet lancet windows Lincoln masonry Minster mouldings nave Normandy Northamptonshire original ornament Oxford Oxfordshire Palace panelling Perpendicular style pillars plain pointed arches porch probably provinces quatrefoil racter rebuilt remains remarkable rich Roman Rome roof round sculpture shafts Shewing side sometimes square stone Thermæ thirteenth century tooth-ornament tower tracery transept transitional trefoil triforium twelfth century usually vault walls west end west front Westminster Abbey William of Sens Winchester wooden
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Page 331 - THE CALENDAR OF THE PRAYER-BOOK ILLUSTRATED. (Comprising the first portion of the " Calendar of the Anglican Church...
Page 331 - CRUCIS NOSTR^E IN MONTE ACUTO ET DE DUCTIONE EJUSDEM APUD WALTHAM," now first printed from the Manuscript in the British Museum, with Introduction and Notes by WILLIAM STUBBS, MA, Vicar of Navestock, late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
Page 331 - WORKS PUBLISHED IN PHOTOZINCOGRAPHY. DOMESDAY BOOK, or the GREAT SURVEY OF ENGLAND OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, 1086 ; fac-simile of the Part relating to each county, separately (with a few exceptions of double counties). Photozincographed, by Her Majesty's Command, at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, Colonel SIR HENRY JAMES, RE, FRS, &c., Director. 35 Parts...
Page 182 - 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 3 - ... altars be erected, and relics placed. For if those temples are well built, it is requisite that they be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God...
Page 47 - ... the four principal pillars. There, there was a ceiling of wood decorated with excellent painting, but here is a vault beautifully constructed of stone and light tufa. There, was a single triforium, but here are two in the choir and a third in the aisle of the church. All which will be better understood from inspection than by any description.
Page 328 - GILBERT SCOTT, RA, FSA With Appendices supplying Further Particulars, and completing the History of the Abbey Buildings, by Several Writers. Second Edition, enlarged, containing many new Illustrations by O. Jewitt and others. Medium 8vo., 10s.
Page 46 - He [Roger, Bishop of Salisbury] 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 beaut}', 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 Hock.