A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral: Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents — John Shaqi
A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral: Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documentsPhillips, George S. (George Searle)
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A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral: Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents
Phillips, George S. (George Searle)
Peterborough Cathedral -- Guidebooks; Peterborough Cathedral -- History
"The pediments contain each a large circular light, with other
apertures and niches. The circle of the central pediment is divided by
mullions into eight lights, under trefoil arches radiating from an orb.
Those on the sides are divided into six lights, the featherings of
which are very beautiful. The mullions, or radii, are all faced with
small pillars and capitals, and lined with the dog-toothed quatrefoil.
The outer moulding of the central circle is composed of closely
compacted trefoils, that of the others has the wave ornament. At the
base of each circle is a series of trefoil arches, rested on isolated
columns, four of which admit light into an apartment above the
vaulting, and three contain statues. The intermediate spaces formed by
the circle and the pediment, contain two niches, one on each side and
another above, all filled with statues. The niche in the apex of the
central pediment contains a statue, apparently of St. Peter, to whom
the church is dedicated, representing the apostle with the mitre, pall,
keys, and other insignia of the bishop of Rome.
"The turrets, before mentioned, are divided by the round moulding and
string courses into six stages, which are empannelled in front with
arches of different forms and dimensions. In the first stage from the
ground, and rising from a channelled base, are two lofty pointed arches
resting on slender pillars. In the second stage are four trefoil arches
similarly supported; this range is continued round the facings of the
inner wall immediately over the doorways, and forms the base of the
windows. The third stage contains one pointed arch, intersected by a
pillar in the centre, with curved mouldings, forming two lesser arches;
which last are again subdivided by pillars sustaining one circular arch
in the centre, and segments of arches on the sides.
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