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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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. Theyhave the double arches, and serve well to shew the dif-ference between French and English flying-buttresses. At Beauvais, which is the most lofty choir in Europe,the original magnificent design seems to have beencarefully and very gradually carried out, the piers andarches being of the thirteenth century, while the clere-story and vault are of the fourteenth. The centraltower has evidently fallen down, and in so doing hasdestroyed the north-east pier and the arch adjoining toit; and these parts were not rebuilt until the fifteenth q Although the English cathedrals are longer than the French or anyothers, they do not appear so large, from the -want of height. Their firsteffect is less striking, but they grow upon the mind, and seem to developethemselves more, and perhaps they produce the impression of religiousawe and reverence more than any others. 238 EARLY FRENCH BUTTRESSES. century, having the mouldings and details of the Plam-boyant style. But no such change of mouldings and
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170. S. Denis, Paris, c 1240. Shewing the French flying-buttress with two arches, one over the other. details occurs in the piers and arches of the apse, theyare all alike, all apparently built at the same time, andthe arches have no appearance of having been altered. The apsidal form of the east end is almost universalin France, and adds considerably to the striking effectof the interior. The whole of this division of the EARLY FRENCB PILLARS. church has a character of great elevation, produced oradded to by the elongation of its component parts:the arches are lofty and narrow, generally stilted; thesmall arches of the triforium-arcade are also drawncloser together, and elongated in the same manner;the windows are long and narrow, usually lancet-shaped, and single lights, even though all the sidewindows are of two lights. The vault often partakesof the same character, the cells being deep and narrow,comprising only one window in width, and springingfrom near the bottom of it. In othe

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