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Title: An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Oxford: J. Parker and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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in a more elegantstyle, having first collected at his own charges the most subtleartificers, both English and foreign. The portions of thechurch built by Henry the Third are the choir and apse, the Godwin in the sense of establishments and monastery, and a college isoften called a house.^ Part of the Palace of Wokey remains. « See Cockerells Sculptures of Wells Cathedral, 4to., 1851, and theadmirable series of photographs of them published by the ArchitecturalPhotographic Association. no THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE. transepts, the first bay only of the nave, and part of the cloister.This work is of the richest character, but still pure EarlyEnglish, though with a slight mixture of Early French cha-racter, especially in the buttresses. The surface of the wall iscovered with diaper-work, the triforium arcade is double, andhas foliated circles of bar-tracery in the head. The points ofthe cusps are flowered, and the outer moulding of the archis enriched with foliage resembling crockets (76).
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76. Westminster Albey, A.D. 1250. Triforium Arcade, shewing the surface of ^vall covered with diaper orna-ment, arch-mouldings enriched with foliage, fub-aiches foliated, coupledshafts having moulded capitals, a foliated circle in the head with orna-mented cusps. THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE, III The north transept of York Minster (77) was built between1250 and 1260, byJohn the Eoman,treasurer of thechurch, or ratherprobably by thechapter of which hewas treasurer andpaymaster, and sohis name becameattached to it, moreespeci ally as heafterwards becameArchbishop of York.The records of thecathedral clearlyprove that it was theregular practice ofthe chapter to keepa gang of workmenin their pay as partof the establish-ment; the numbervaried from twentyto fifty, and thesame families wereusually continuedgeneration after ge-neration : to theircontinued labour, al-ways doing something every year, we are indebted for thewhole of that glorious fabric. This practice was by no meanspeculiar to York,

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