the design and completed the work. Bourassé, Les Cathédrales de France, pp. 58, 59, and De Caumont, Hist. de l'Archit. Relig., p. 377. Style-Early French, richly ornamented with sculpture. 1212. The nave, central tower, and cupola of St. Gereon's church, at Cologne. De Lassaulx's Notes, &c., p. 211. Style-Transition, with more of the Early Pointed style. For engravings see Boisserée, Plates 61-63. 1212. The choir of the cathedral of Soissons, in France, completed. The following inscription, discovered by M. de Caumont on the wall by the side of the choir itself, shews that it was finished at this date:-ANNO : MILLENO BISCENTENO: DVODENO: HVNC INTRARE: CHORVM CEPIT GREX : CANONICORVM: TERCIO: IDVS: MAII. De Caumont, Hist. Sommaire de l'Architecture, p. 166, and Bourassé, Cathédrales de France, p. 658. Style-Transition from Norman, and Early French. 1213. The church of Dunstaple, being completed, was dedicated this year. "In festo sancti Lucæ dedicata est ecclesia de Dunstaple ab Hugone secundo Lincolniense episcopo." Annal. de Dunstaple, and Monasticon, vol. vi. p. 241. Style-Some portions of this church are good Early English: but the greater part is Norman; and there are many Perpendicular insertions. 1214. The abbey church of Bec, in Normandy, rebuilt. "Jactis in altum fundamentis, ipse (Richardus de Sancto Leodegario, abbas Becci) manibus suis primum lapide, circumstante conventu suo, super fundamentum posuit, prima die lunæ Quadragesimæ, procurante et cooperante Ingelramno, magistro operis beatæ Mariæ Rothomagensis, cujus consilio se commisit. Idem vero Ingelramnus viriliter agens, opus incœptum primo anno cum magna virtute ædificavit; et frontem ecclesiæ et navem in longitudinem auxit, et duabus amplissimis turribus mirifice adornavit. Peracto autem anno et semi, retraxit se aliquantulum, opus retardando, et non, ut promiserat, perficiendo. Quo viso, et comperto, abbas sapienti usus consilio, jam uno anno, et octo mensibus expletis, amoto Ingelramno, ipso facto tradidit illud opus ad perficiendum magistro Walterio de Mellento, qui tertio anno adduxit et exaltavit prædictum opus." Chron. Beccense, pp. 214, 215. 1215. Hales Owen abbey, in Shropshire, founded by king John. Monasticon, vol. vi. p. 926. Style-Early English. Window, vol. iii. Pl. 39. 1215-1220. The porch of the cloisters of Maulbronn, in the kingdom of Wurtemberg built. Kallenbach, Chronologie der Deutschmittelalterlichen Baukunst, II. abtheilung. Style-Early German with round arches, but trefoil heads to the lights; a small circle in the head of each window, and banded shafts. 1215-1222. Robert de Lyndesheye, abbot of Peterborough, built the chancel of the church at Oxney, in Northamptonshire; which was afterwards lengthened by Godfrey of Croyland, another abbot of that monastery. Monasticon, vol. i. pp. 354, and 358. Oxney belonged to the monastery of Peterborough, which had a cell, or small priory there. Some remains of these buildings are still to be seen. Part of the cell is now a farm-house. The hall and dairy have arched stone roofs, with ribs crossing each other at the top, and supported by low pillars. In the dairy remains also the old floor, which is of Barnack stone. 1215, vel circa. The church of St. Sebald at Nuremberg, in Kallenbach, Chronologie, &c., II. abtheilung. Style-Romanesque, and Transition. Germany, built. THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OF THE EARLY PART OF THE REIGN OF HENRY III., BEING ALL IN THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE. Beverley minster, Yorkshire. Arch, vol. iii. Pl. 4; Base, vol. ii. Pl. 14; Basemouldings, vol. ii. Pl. 83; Windows, vol. ii. Pl. 163. Christ Church cathedral, chapter-house, &c., Oxford. Abacus, chapterhouse, vol. ii. Pl. 1; Arch in the Lady chapel, vol. ii. Pl. 10; Boss, vol. ii. Pl. 18; Tower and Spire, vol. iii. Pl. 38. Skelton church, Yorkshire. Tidmarsh Church, Berks. Bell-cot, vol. ii. Pl. 17. Base, vol. ii. Pl. 14; Capital, vol. ii. Pl. 30. Arcade and Moulding, Haddenham church, Bucks, vol. ii. Plates 6 and 83. Bell-cot, Glastonbury, vol. ii. Pl. 17. Capitals, St. Nicholas, Blois, and Bloxham, Oxon, vol. ii. Pl. 30; Haseley, Oxon, and Hereford cathedral, vol. i. p. 84. Corbel-tables, Broadwater, Sussex, vol. i. p. 3 ; Ketton, Rutland, vol. i. p. 154. Doorways, Great Haseley, and Kidlington, Oxfordshire, vol. ii. Pl. 48. Fonts, St. Giles's, Oxford, vol. ii. Pl. 59; Barnack, Northamptonshire, and Lostwithiel, Cornwall, vol. iii. Pl. 34. Mouldings, Shere, Surrey, vol. ii. Pl. 83; Great Haseley, and Kidlington, Oxfordshire, vol. ii. Pl. 84; Chipping Warden, Northants., vol. ii. Pl. 85. Pillars, Eu, in Normandy, vol. ii. Pl. 107. Pinnacle, Battle church, Sussex, vol. i. p. 287. Piscina, Cowling, Suffolk, vol. ii. Pl. 112. Tower, Middleton Stoney, Oxon, vol. ii. Pl. 139. 1216-1220. The chapter-house of the abbey of Rammersdorf, near the Rhine, built. De Lassaulx's Notes, &c., p. 190 and 191, and Boisserée, Denkmale der Baukunst am Nieder-Rhein, Pl. 58. Style-Transition, with more of the Early German character. 1217-1254. The choir, surrounding chapels, and transepts of the cathedral of Le Mans, in France, built. Bourassé, Cathédrales de France, p. 132 *. Style-Early French. 1219. The vaulting of the church of the Apostles at Cologne. De Lassaulx s Notes, &c., pp. 211, 212. Style-Transition. For engravings see Boisserée. 1219. The church of St. Leonard at Francfort on the Maine. Von Lersner's Frankfurter Chronik., II. p. 112. "The ground on which this church is built is said to have been given to the city by the emperor Frederic the Second, in the year 1219, in order to erect, as the document of this donation has it, a chapel in honour of the Virgin Mary Amongst other monuments, this cathedral contains that of Berengaria, queen of Richard Cœur de Lion, brought from the abbey of L' Epau, where she was buried. and St. George, whose figures are seen in the field of the arched gateway." Moller, Denkmaler der Deutschen Baukunst, p. 14. Pl. xi. Style Transition. The doorway is round-headed; the capitals and ornaments partake of the early Gothic character. 1220. The baptistery of Parma, in Italy, commenced, as appears by the following inscription on the lintel of the door way. BIS DENIS DEMPTIS ANNIS DE MILLE DVCENTIS 1220-1258. Salisbury cathedral, commenced by bishop Richard Poore in 1220, who died in 1237, and was buried in the choir; completed by bishop Giles de Bridport, and consecrated in 1258. Leland, Itin. vol. iii. p. 92, and Monasticon, vol. vi. p. 1292. Style-Early English. Arcades, vol. iii. Pl. 2. Basement Mouldings, vol. ii. Pl. 83. Boss, vol. iii. Pl. 10. Bracket, vol. iii. Pl. 12. Buttresses, vol. iii. Pl. 13. Capitals, vol. iii. Pl. 16. Compartments, vol. iii. Pl. 19. Corbel Tables, vol. ii. Pl. 37, and vol. iii. Pl. 23. Crockets, vol. iii. Pl. 24. Crosses on Gables, vol. iii. Pl. 25. Ornamented Moulding to the old or gan screen, vol. ii. Pl. 85. 1220-1272. Freiburg minster, in the Breisgau, Germany, built. Moller's Memorials of German Gothic Architecture, transl. by Leeds, P. 142. For engravings, see Moller, Denkmaler der Deutschen Baukunst. Style-Early Pointed. The windows have foliated circles in their heads. 1220—1288. The cathedral of Amiens in France. It was begun in 1220 by Robert de Luzarches, a celebrated architect of that time, who gave the design; continued by Thomas de Cormon, and completed by his son Renaud in 1288. De Caumont, Cours d' Antiquités Monumentales, part vi. p. 398, and Bourassé, Cathédrales de France, pp. 20, 21. This splendid building, though commenced at the same time with the cathe dral of Salisbury, is in a more mature style. See Whewell's Architectural Notes, pp. 239, 245. Style-Early Gothic, and part Decorated, with geometrical tracery. 1221. "Hugo, abbas Abendoniæ, vir dapsilis et largus, obiit. Hic multa bona fecit, nam novum opus (the abbey church, or part of it) inchoavit, et consummavit in vita sua, et ante mortem missam ibidem celebravit; et jacet ex parte borealis." Abingdon Chron. Of the abbey church nothing exists; but of the abbey, besides other remains, there is a good Early English fireplace and chimney, and also a groined vault of the same style. Chimney, vol. ii. Pl. 32. 1221. The foundation stone of the Lady chapel in Westminster abbey, laid by king Henry III. Matth. Paris, Hist., p. 310. This chapel was pulled down to make way for the new one, which king Henry VII. erected on its site. 1221. Sion church, at Cologne, erected. Gelenius, De sacr. et civil. magnit. Colon. p. 529., and Boisserée, Denkmale der Baukunst am NiederRhein, P. 38. Style-Transition, but more Early Gothic. 1221-1270. The church of St. Martin at Ypres, in Belgium. The chancel was commenced in 1221, and the nave in 1254. |