Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 2Scott, George Gilbert, Sir
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Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 2
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir
Architecture, Gothic; Architecture, Medieval
Geometrical system of window tracery at
Westminster Abbey, Newstead Abbey, and the “Angel Choir” at Lincoln, 276.
Gereon, St., Cologne, i. 129;
cloisters at, _ibid._
Germain des Près, St., i. 62, 319;
triforium and clerestory, 118;
choir and vaulting, 65, 92;
western doorway, 87, 92;
description of church, 91;
sculpture and capitals, 92.
Germanic nations, i. 6;
their consolidation under the first three Othos, 41.
Germany, i. 33, 41;
architectural movements in, 44;
the transition in, 70, 72, 328;
early roofs in, 254;
modern houses in, 259;
halls and feudal castles of, 260;
domestic brick architecture, 271;
tour in, 327;
Romanesque buildings of, ii. 7, 83;
western apse common to early churches of, 28;
early churches of, 36, 74;
domical churches of, 276, 288;
Romanesque of, Byzantine influence upon, 308.
Gilles, St., near Nismes, i. 99.
Glasgow Cathedral, i. 202;
crypt under, 240;
ii. 200-202.
Glass, painted, i. 22, 34, 203, 297, 357;
in secular work, 361.
Glass-plane, i. 276.
Glastonbury, church at, probably the first
erected in Great Britain, ii. 19.
Glastonbury, St. Joseph’s Chapel, i. 66, 114;
ii. 181, 194, 311.
Glastonbury Abbey, i. 114, 117, 308.
Glazing, mode of, for spaces of moderate width, i. 252;
iron-work supporting, 297.
Glendalough, St. Kevin at, abbots’ houses, ii. 19.
Gloucester Cathedral, ii. 121, 135;
choir, i. 90;
ii. 214;
nave, i. 155;
vaulting to the gallery over the aisles, ii. 88;
apsidal chapels, 122;
Lady Chapel, 215;
cloisters, 219.
Goring Church, Oxfordshire, vaulting beneath the tower, ii. 170.
Gothic architecture, claims upon our study, i. 6, 16;
abstract beauty of, 18;
adaptability to varied climates and buildings, 20, 21;
its freedom in ornamentation, 25;
southern examples, 34;
distinctive characteristics, 70;
timber roofs, 255;
developments founded upon practical considerations, 261;
honesty of treatment in, 266;
unites the conditions necessary for our future architecture, 274, 292;
complete Gothic, 347, 351;
study of old examples, 293;
imaginary excursion for the study of, 295;
study of, in London, 309;
its revival, 346;
arch-mouldings, ii. 142;
revived, acceptance of the dome into, 288;
details of, in its earliest phase rivalling those of Greece, 311;
an absolutely new phase of art, 310;
its development and progressive stages, 309-313;
its study, 324-326.
Gothic, conquerors of Rome, i. 5;
invasions, 47;
Italian, 134.
Gothic Renaissance, the, Sir Gilbert Scott’s personal reminiscences, 317.
Goths, incursions of the, i. 11.
Gower Street, a specimen of the untutored house-builder, ii. 315.
Gradenæ surrounding domes, ii. 233, 235.
Grantham steeple, i. 194;
vaulting beneath the tower, ii. 174.
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