The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and ArchitectureDitchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
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The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and Architecture
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
Cathedrals -- Great Britain; Church architecture -- Great Britain
Norman (1084-1160)--Crypt, chapter-house, and parts of
other monastic buildings, west bays of nave with aisles,
parts of north and south transepts.
Early English (1224)--Choir with aisles and Lady Chapel.
Decorated (1317-1327)--North side of nave, vault of north
aisle.
(1360)--South side of nave.
(1376-1394)--Refectory, cloisters recased, tower, nave
and choir vault, library, treasury, stalls and north porch.
Perpendicular--Windows in north transept, Prince Arthur's
tomb.
Modern--West window in nave, north window in north
transept, east window in nave, reredos, etc.
[Illustration PLAN OF WORCESTER CATHEDRAL]
LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL
Lichfield has been the victim of Puritan rage and of the over-zeal of
modern restorers, but in spite of this it retains much of its ancient
beauty and its picturesqueness is evident to all. It is one of the
smallest of our cathedrals, but when one sees the three graceful
spires of Lichfield, known as the "Ladies of the Vale," the glories of
its west front and the richness of the carving, one cannot but retain
a warm place in one's heart for this wonderful building which has
passed through such strange vicissitudes of fortune. It has been
be-pinnacled by our modern Gothic confectioners, who have produced
much unnatural "naturalism" in their sculpture; but if we can forget
that much that we see is new, we shall perhaps form some conception of
what the Cathedral was like ere innovators and destroyers laid their
hands upon it.
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