Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of York: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See — John Shaqi
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of York: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal SeeClutton-Brock, A. (Arthur)
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Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of York: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
Clutton-Brock, A. (Arthur)
York Minster
1. Seme of fleur-de-lis--Old France.
2. Six lions rampant--Ulphus.
3. On a chevron, three lions passant guardant--Cobham.
4. Barry of ten, an orle of martlets--Valence.
5. A bend, cottised, between six lions rampant--Bohun.
6. A fess, between six cross crosslets--Beauchamp.
7. Quarterly, in the first quarter a mullet--Vere.
8. A cross moline--Paganel.
9. Barry of ten, three chaplets--Greystock.
10. Billette, a lion rampant--Bulmer.
11, 12, 13 and 14. Three water bougets--Roos.
15, 16. Five fusils in fess--Old Percy.
Beginning again at the south-west end of the nave the arms are:
17, 18. Five fusils in fess--Old Percy.
19. Lion rampant--Mowbray.
20. Lion rampant--Percy.
21, 22. Blank shields.
23. Two bars, in chief, three roundels--Wake.
24. A fess, in chief, three roundels--Colville.
25. On a bend, three cross crosslets--Manley.
26, 27. A bend--Manley.
28. A fess dancette--Vavasour.
29. Three chevronelles--Clare.
30. A cross moline--Paganel.
31. Three lions passant guardant, with a label of three
points--Edward, Prince of Wales.
32. Three lions passant guardant--England.
At the centre of each pier rise three shafts to the point at which the
ribs of the vaulting spring: a large shaft in the middle, with a smaller
one on each side of it. There are small carved figures at the point at
which the smaller of these shafts touch the moulding of the arches. The
capitals of these shafts, though small, are of a very delicate design. A
few inches above the top of the main arch is a horizontal string course
or moulding dividing each bay into two storeys. As has been said, the
triforium is merely a prolongation of the lights of the clerestory
window. These lights are five in number. The division between clerestory
and triforium is marked by a band of stone ornamented with quatrefoils.
Below this is a cusped arch in each light of the triforium with a
crocketed gable ending in a finial above it. The centre lights of the
triforium in each bay originally contained figures, said to have been
the patron saints of European nations. Of these there only remains a
figure in the fourth bay from the west on the south side. Near the
triforium in the opposite bay to this there projects the head of a
dragon carved in wood, from which the covering of the font used to hang.
The clerestory windows are of uniform pattern of the style known as
geometrical Decorated. This pattern is very fine in design. It consists
of five lights, the two outer of which are grouped in a single arch,
with a quatrefoil piercing in its head. Between these two arches and on
the top of the arch of the central light is a circle fitting into the
arch of the window, and ornamented with four quatrefoils, four trefoil
piercings, and other smaller lights. There are capitals to the outside
shafts of the windows, and to the main shafts of the two inner mullions.
All these mullions are very delicately moulded. A separate account will
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