Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 2Scott, George Gilbert, Sir
History
Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 2
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir
Architecture, Gothic; Architecture, Medieval
Chapel of St. John, Tower of London--St. Alban’s Abbey--St.
Stephen’s at Caen--Cathedrals of Winchester, Ely, London, Rochester,
and Norwich--Abbey Church at Bury St. Edmund’s--Gloucester
Cathedral--Tewkesbury Abbey--Cathedrals of Worcester and
Durham--Waltham Abbey--Christchurch, Hants Page 92
LECTURE XIII.
The Practical and Artistic Principles of Early Architecture in Great
Britain.
The close of the eleventh century--The “new manner of
building”--Conditions necessary to an _arcuated_, as distinguished
from a _trabeated_, style--First principles of Grecian and
Roman architecture--Rationale of the _arcuated_ style--Its
developments--Cloisters of St. Paul without the Walls and St.
John Lateran, Rome--Doorways--Windows--Vaulting over spaces
enclosed by walls or ranges of piers--Simplest elements
defined--Barrel-vaults--Hemispherical vaults or _domes_--Groined
vaults Page 133
LECTURE XIV.
The Principles of Vaulting.
Vaulting of spaces of other forms than the mere square--Apsidal
aisles, St. John’s Chapel, Tower, and St. Bartholomew’s Church,
Smithfield--Chapter-house and crypt, Worcester--Round-arched vaulting
in its most normal form, as resulting from the _barrel_ vault and
its intersections--Short digression on another simple form of vault,
the _dome_--“Domed up” vaults--“Welsh” groining--The square or
polygonal dome--The Round-arched style of the twelfth century almost
perfect--First introduction of the Pointed arch into vaulting--Names
of the parts of groined vaulting--Two specimens in London of the
apsidal aisle, one in the Round-arched, the other in the Pointed-arched
style--Vaulting a polygon with a central pillar--_Ploughshare_
vaulting--The artistic sentiment and character of early Gothic
vaulting Page 161
LECTURE XV.
The Principles of Vaulting--_continued_.
Certain practical points concerning vaulting--Ribs of early and late
vaulting--Filling in of intermediate surfaces or cells--Methods
adopted in France and England--Sexpartite vaulting--Crypt of Glasgow
Cathedral--Choir at Lincoln--Chapter-house, Lichfield--Caudebec,
Normandy--Octagonal kitchen of the Monastery, Durham--Lady
Chapel, Salisbury--Segmental vaulting--Temple Church--Lady
Chapel, St. Saviour’s, Southwark--Westminster Abbey--Intermediate
ribs--Presbytery at Ely--Chapter-houses of Chester and Wells--Exeter
Cathedral--Cloisters, Westminster--“Liernes”--Ely Cathedral--Chancel,
Nantwich Church--Crosby Hall and Eltham Palace--Choir at
Gloucester--Winchester Cathedral--Fan-vaulting--Cloisters at
Gloucester--King’s College Chapel, Cambridge--Divinity Schools,
Oxford--Roof of Henry VII.’s Chapel, Westminster--Ideal of its
_design_ Page 190
LECTURE XVI.
The Dome.
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