LECTURES ON THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIÆVAL ARCHITECTURE [Illustration: Fig. 116.--Western Porch, Ely Cathedral. _The restoration of the Vescica Piscis is taken from a print in the British Museum, dated 1730._] LECTURES ON THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF Mediæval Architecture Delivered at the Royal Academy BY SIR GILBERT SCOTT, R.A., F.S.A., LL.D., ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES--VOL. I. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1879 _The right of Translation is reserved._ _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_. PREFACE. Only half of the following Lectures were delivered by me, as the _Professor of Architecture_, at the Royal Academy. The first seven were delivered while Professor Cockerell held the Chair; but, owing to his infirm state of health, I being then an Associate, was, in conjunction with Mr. Smirke, called in to relieve him of this duty. The eighth and ninth Lectures were prepared six years later, after Mr. Smirke had retired, and those which follow, when I had succeeded him in the Professorship. The Lectures are naturally somewhat disconnected; and having been written both at various times and for audiences often changing, may be found in some instances to repeat the same facts and ideas, for which, as well as for too great a prolixity of style, I beg to apologise. They were written with much zeal; and, thanks to my staff, and to my pupils, my sons, and others, they were magnificently and profusely illustrated; more so, perhaps, than any such Lectures had ever been before. They have lain long in abeyance; but it seemed to me, that “for better for worse,” and notwithstanding the lapse of time, they ought to be published, and Mr. Murray has most kindly undertaken to do this for me. In correcting them for the press, I have made only verbal alterations, or corrected accidental errors, or omitted a few harsh expressions. Where I wished to amplify, I have done so by notes. The illustrations have been mainly drawn by my friend and assistant, Mr. W. S. Weatherley, chiefly from those exhibited when the Lectures were delivered, with additions from my more recent sketches, and will be found to contribute largely to the elucidation of the text. GEO. GILBERT SCOTT. LONDON, _February 1878_. * * * * *