A Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England, During the Middle Ages: With Ten Illustrative PlatesJohn Weale (late Josiah Taylor), 1835 - 158 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 157 - ... a Gothic Cathedral ; or ever entered one of the larger and more elegant edifices of this kind, but it represented to his imagination an avenue of trees. And this alone is what can be truly called the GOTHIC style of building.
الصفحة 157 - That no attentive observer ever viewed a regular avenue of well-grown trees, intermixing their branches over head, but it presently put him in mind of the long visto through a Gothic Cathedral...
الصفحة 149 - An opinion has long prevailed, chiefly countenanced by Mr. Somner, (a) that the Saxon churches were mostly built with timber ; and that the few they had of stone, consisted only of upright walls, without pillars or arches ; the construction of which, it is pretended, they were entirely ignorant of.
الصفحة 157 - For this northern people, having been accustomed during the gloom of paganism to worship the Deity in groves, (a practice common to all nations,) when their new religion required covered edifices, they ingeniously projected to make them resemble groves as nearly as the distance of architecture would permit...
الصفحة 42 - Peterborough. Then to adorn their vast massive columns there was the spiral-grove winding round the shafts, and the net, or lozenge-work, overspreading them, both of which appear at Durham, and the first in the undercroft at Canterbury. These few things are mentioned only, because Mr. Bentham's work is so nearly complete in this part, that one would wish it were quite so. His own observation may doubtless suggest to him many more peculiarities, which, however minute in appearance, are not contemptible,...
الصفحة 12 - Most of the churches in Somersetshire, which are remarkably elegant, are in the style of the FLORID Gothic. The reason is this : Somersetshire, in the civil wars between York and Lancaster, was strongly and entirely attached to the Lancastrian party. In reward for this service, Henry VII. when he came to the crown, rebuilt their churches.
الصفحة 157 - ... their government was regular; and where they fixed, near the building in hand, they made a camp of huts. A surveyor governed in chief; every tenth man was called a warden, and overlooked each nine.
الصفحة 16 - ... and spoked wheels upon occasion ; but having rejected cornices, they had no need of great engines : stone upon stone was easily piled up to great heights ; therefore the pride of their work was in pinnacles and steeples.
الصفحة 157 - I would call the SAXON architecture. But our Norman works had a very different original. When the Goths had conquered Spain, and the genial warmth of the climate, and the religion of the old inhabitants...
الصفحة 157 - The capitals and bases of the columns alternately vary in their form, as well as in their ornaments. The same circumstance is observable in the ribs of the arches, especially in the north and south aisles, some of them being plain, others profusely embellished, and in different styles, even within the same arch. Here we view almost every kind of Saxon and Norman ornament, the chevron, the billet, the hatched, the pellet, the fret, the indented, the nebule, the wavey, all superiorly executed.