An Introduction to the Study of Gothic ArchitectureJ. Parker, 1891 - 331 sider The history of Gothic architecture from the Roman period to the Renaissance. Most of the text focuses on English architecture but the final section covers the Gothic style in some other European countries. Includes nearly 190 illustrations, as well as a glossary of terms. |
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Side viii
... Roman period and the year 1000 , that we cannot be sure how far this test generally applies to them ; but by applying it , on another visit , to the very curious little early church at Bradford - on - Avon in Wiltshire , I became ...
... Roman period and the year 1000 , that we cannot be sure how far this test generally applies to them ; but by applying it , on another visit , to the very curious little early church at Bradford - on - Avon in Wiltshire , I became ...
Side ix
... Roman masonry , which may very well be of that period . The walls of a city are generally built long before any stone building within it , the original city to be enclosed having been built of wood . The same test of wide and fine ...
... Roman masonry , which may very well be of that period . The walls of a city are generally built long before any stone building within it , the original city to be enclosed having been built of wood . The same test of wide and fine ...
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... Roman , and clumsy work . The so - called seven churches at Bologna , attributed to the tenth century , are made out of an old Roman temple , and the me- dieval work is not of the tenth century , but of the eleventh and twelfth ...
... Roman , and clumsy work . The so - called seven churches at Bologna , attributed to the tenth century , are made out of an old Roman temple , and the me- dieval work is not of the tenth century , but of the eleventh and twelfth ...
Side xiv
... , but the last Edition published during the Author's lifetime has been strictly followed . Mr. J. II . PARKER died Jan. 31 , 1884 . Oxford , July , 1884 . CONTENTS . FROM THE ROMAN PERIOD TO THE END OF xiv PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION .
... , but the last Edition published during the Author's lifetime has been strictly followed . Mr. J. II . PARKER died Jan. 31 , 1884 . Oxford , July , 1884 . CONTENTS . FROM THE ROMAN PERIOD TO THE END OF xiv PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION .
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John Henry Parker. CONTENTS . FROM THE ROMAN PERIOD TO THE END OF THE TENTH CENTURY . · PAGE · • • . 1 The Basilica . - The Tribune , or Apse . - The Byzantine Style . - Roman Masonry . - The Barbarian Period . - The time of Augustine ...
John Henry Parker. CONTENTS . FROM THE ROMAN PERIOD TO THE END OF THE TENTH CENTURY . · PAGE · • • . 1 The Basilica . - The Tribune , or Apse . - The Byzantine Style . - Roman Masonry . - The Barbarian Period . - The time of Augustine ...
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abacus afterwards aisles altar angles appears apse arcade architect architecture Basilica belong Berkshire Beverley Minster Bishop brick buildings built buttresses Byzantine called Canterbury capitals Castle Cathedral chapel chapter-house character chiefly choir clerestory cloister construction crockets crypt cusps Decorated style doorways earlier Early English style Early French early Norman eleventh century England examples feature Flamboyant foliage foliated foliated circles France frequently Gloucester Cathedral Gothic architecture Gothic style hall Hugh inscription Italy lancet lancet windows later Lincoln Lincoln Cathedral masonry Minster mouldings nave Normandy Northamptonshire original ornament Oxford Oxfordshire Palace panelling period Perpendicular style pillars plain pointed arches porch probably provinces quatrefoil racter Raunds rebuilt remains remarkable rich Roman Rome roof round sculpture shafts Shewing sometimes square stone thirteenth century tooth-ornament tower tracery transept transitional trefoil triforium twelfth century usually vault walls west end west front Westminster Abbey Winchester Winchester Cathedral wooden
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Side 7 - ... 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...
Side 50 - 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, THE EAELY NORMAN PERIOD.
Side 50 - 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.
Side 188 - ... opening than a distinct member of the division. The roofing, from the increased richness of the groining, becomes an object of more attention. On the whole, the nave of York, from the uncommon grandeur and simplicity of the design, is certainly the finest example ; ornament is nowhere spared, yet there is a simplicity which is peculiarly pleasing.
Side 109 - Owky d, as also many other edifices in the same houses : and lastly, the church of Welles itselfe being now ready to fall to the ground, notwithstanding the great cost bestowed upon it by Bishop Robert, he pulled down the...