Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 1Scott, George Gilbert, Sir
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Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 1
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir
Architecture, Gothic; Architecture, Medieval
The Thirteenth Century--_continued_.
St. Saviour’s, Southwark--Choir of Temple Church, London--Chapel at
Lambeth--Westminster Abbey--Its Italian mosaic work, monuments, and
ancient reredos--Chapel of St. Ethelreda, Holborn--St. Alban’s
Abbey--Priory Church, Dunstable--Stone Church near
Gravesend--Waltham Cross--Jesus Chapel, Cambridge--Ely and
Peterborough Cathedrals--Warmington Church--West Walton
Abbey--Crowland Abbey--St. Mary’s and All Saints, Stanford--Ketton,
Grantham, and Frampton Churches--Lincoln Cathedral--Southwell
Minster--Newstead Abbey--York Cathedral--St. Mary’s Abbey, and St.
Leonard’s Hospital, York--Skelton Church--Beverley and Ripon
Minsters--Fountains, Rivaulx, Whitby, Kirkham, and Guisborough
Abbeys--Chapel of the Nine Altars, Durham--Hexham and Dryburgh
Abbeys--Chapel of Holyrood--Elgin and Glasgow Cathedrals--Furness
Abbey--Southern examples--Most great churches in France vaulted,
not so in England--Universal excellence of workmanship from 1175 to
1400--Domestic architecture of France, Germany, Italy, and
England--Influence of thirteenth century work on our artistic
practice.
In my last lecture I gave a hasty outline of the developed architecture
of this great period.
I will now endeavour to give an equally hasty glance at some of its more
marked creations, beginning--as in duty bound--at home. Their number,
however, is so great, that one is perplexed to know where to begin, or
in what order to take them. Perhaps the most profitable way will be to
imagine the student to live in London, and to commence with the works of
this century, which he may study within a walk of his home.
Let us begin, then, with the church of St. Saviour--formerly St. Mary
Overie--in Southwark.
When I first knew this Church the whole of it was standing: externally,
it is true, the aspect it presented was not very pleasing, for it had
been cased almost throughout with red brick, and the Lady Chapel was
little else than a ruin. The choir was then in course of restoration.
The interior was a most noble structure, and was almost perfect, and
nearly all of this century, though some small portions westward were
earlier, and the south transept possibly a little later. The whole was
on a very symmetrical design, that of the nave being very much the same
with the choir.
Its character may easily be judged of from what remains. It was nobly
massive and grand, not of lofty proportions, but still such as to
satisfy the eye. The pillars were alternately round and canted squares,
flanked with attached shafts; the triforium consisting of arcades,
interrupted only by the vaulting shafts. At the east end is a beautiful
Lady Chapel, vaulted on light clustered pillars.
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