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Identifier: gothicarchitectu01jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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them.The extreme beauty of this triforium, both in detail andin proportion, must strike everyone. It is a faultlessexample of English Gothic at its best, and in my opinionhas no rival anywhere (Fig. 100). Fig. 101 shows thedetail of the shaft. The clerestory is carried up to the level of the sidevault, and quite fills the bay, thus satisfying the strictlogic of Gothic construction by obliterating the curtainwall, the window arch forming the wall rib of thevaulting. Owing to the narrowness of the bay thewall arch is stilted to such a degree that the panel ofthe vault has to wind a great deal, and for some wayup there is little but a thin wall on the back of the ribsnext the side wall. The clerestory passage has dis-appeared, and the window is brought well towards theinside face. Westminster is one of the places in England wherepolychrome masonry, rare on this side of the Alps, is ch. xvi) WESTMINSTER ABBEY 277 WESTMINSTER HBBE.Y Ct-ijRCn TRlFORIuM IN NORTH-CAST BAy OF SOOTH TR/MM^ELPT.
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Fig. 100. (From Spring Gardens Sketchbook.) 278 WESTMINSTER ABBEY (ch. xvi Italianwork employed. There are traces of chequer work in theearly Norman building, and the vaulting of the nave andof the cloisters is banded with stone of two differentcolours with charming effect. King Henrys foreign inclinations were not limitedto France. Here alone in England till the time of theRenaissance do we find specimens of Italian art. It was

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  • booksubject:Architecture__Gothic
  • bookpublisher:Cambridge__University_Press
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  • bookleafnumber:441
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