An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture, from the Conquest to the Reformation. Preceded by a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders, with notices of nearly five hundred English buildings [and an Appendix].1862 |
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abacus Abbey Church Abbot aisles appears arcade architecture architrave battlement beautiful Beverley Minster Bishop buildings built buttresses called canopy Canterbury Canterbury Cathedral capitals carved Castle chancel chapter-house character choir church of St clearstory cloisters columns cornice crypt cymatium Decorated style door doorways Doric dripstone Early English east end east window England English style engravings entablature erected examples exterior fillet Flamboyant flat foliage Gothic Grecian groined heads Henry the Seventh's hollow inscription interior Lady-chapel later Lincoln Cathedral Lincolnshire long-and-short lower masonry Minster Monumental mouldings mullions nave niches Norman Normandy north transept Northamptonshire ogee original ornament ovolo Oxford Oxfordshire panels period Perpendicular style Peterborough Cathedral piers plain pointed arches porch quatrefoils rebuilt remains rich Roman roof round rude Seventh's Chapel shafts side sometimes specimen spire square stone temple tomb tower tracery transept transitional triforium vault volutes wall west front Westminster Abbey Winchester Winchester Cathedral York Yorkshire
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Page 150 - 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 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 363 - Of perpendicular fronts, the same author says, " by far the finest is that of Beverley minster. What the west front of York is to the decorated style, this is to the perpendicular, with this addition, that in this front nothing but one style is seen; all is...
Page 152 - They were probably merchants from Byzantium, and it has been conjectured that they were consulted by the founder respecting the plan and architectural character of the church. The aisle round the apse remains in a very genuine state, and agrees with this period ; it is of rather early Norman character, with transverse arches, which are of the horse-shoe form.
Page 168 - And the master, perceiving that he derived no benefit from the physicians, gave up the work, and crossing the sea, returned to his home in France. And another succeeded him in the charge of the works; William by name, English by nation, small in body, but in workmanship of many kinds acute and honest.
Page 259 - Cathedral are of nine, and these are nearly, if not quite, the largest windows remaining. There may be observed two descriptions of tracery, and although, in different parts, they may have been worked at the same time, yet the first is generally the oldest. In this first division, the figures, such as circles, trefoils, quatrefoils, &c., are all worked with the same moulding, and do not always regularly join each other, but touch only at points. This may be called geometrical tracery...
Page 358 - Flintshire, are curious examples, being a complete chase of cats, rats, mice, dogs, and a variety of imaginary figures, amongst which various grotesque monkeys are very conspicuous. In the latter end of the style something very analogous to an ornamented frieze is perceived, of which the canopies to the niches in various works are examples, and the angels so profusely introduced in the later rich works are a sort of cornice ornaments.
Page 164 - There a wall set upon pillars divided the crosses [transepts] from the choir, but here the crosses are separated from the choir by no such partition, and converge together in one key-stone, which is placed in the middle of the great vault, which rests upon 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...
Page 242 - Poems, 8vo. 1809, with a portrait. June llth, his remains were interred in the chapel of the Nine Altars, at the east end of Durham cathedral, on the north side of the shrine of St. Cuthbert.
Page 60 - Here the long-and-short appearances are very small, only two ribs by the side of the chancel window, which is an insertion ; but there is a crypt, which is more like Roman work in some parts than Norman ; and here are early Norman portions in the church, and all these portions are so blended with later work, that it is very difficult to say where one ends and the other begins ; but I bave no doubt that some part of this church is of Saxon date.
Page 392 - Sand," without any further mention of its contents : at his return to Pounton, he asked what she had done with it, and found she had put it in the cellar. He then acquainted her that it contained the bulk of his riches ; with which (being issueless) they mutually agreed to build a church, in thanksgiving to God for having prospered them in trade.