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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d deal later, though still in the geometrical style1(Plate LI I), is very striking, with a fine clerestory towhich the triforium is united, as had now become thefashion, and a great effect of height is given by thevaulting shafts which rise from the floor. The capitalsare poor, with detached sprigs of foliage planted roundthe bell. There is a single aisle to the nave, but thechoir, which is dated in 1257, has two aisles divided bycylindrical columns with better foliage. The triforium ofthis part consists of four pointed arches on colonnettesas at Reims and Chartres. The eastern transept is atthe end of the choir, and the apse starts directly fromit. The chevet has chapels ranging with the outer aisleand opening by triple arches to the ambulatory. There is no tower, though preparation was made fora pair at the west end, which has now a poor Renaissance 1 Mr Porter (pp. cit. II. 329) gives the date of the building of the navefrom 1400 to 1470, but the design cannot be so late. Plate III
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r. G. J. S. QUENTIN—Nave ch. x) LATER GEOMETRICAL 173 front. The church has a good deal of fine painted glassin various parts. The magnificent church of S. Pierre at Chartres Chartres,has a continuous nave and choir with side aisles, but notransept. It is of various dates. The lower part of theeastern half is of early Romanesque work with massivepiers and cushion capitals, and the aisle has plain crossgroining without diagonal ribs, but the arches are pointed.This construction goes round the apse, and as the con-structors had not yet learned that the diagonal groins ona curved plan need not lie in one plane, they got intodifficulties, and the intersection is not in the middle ofthe aisle, but falls towards the inside crown1. The apsecolumns, originally mono-cylindric, have later vaultingshafts added to them, and all the superstructure is oflater date. Next in order would seem to come the six westernbays of the church, between which and the eastern partis a distinct break (Fig. 72).

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