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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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SCALE OF FEET Fig. 32. The upper stages of the Tour de S. Paul at the westside of the north transept were added before the year1225, and those of the corresponding Tour de lHorlogeat the south transept rather later. The other two towersflanking the transepts on their eastern side never roseany higher. At the same time that the nave was builtThesquare the choir was altered to its present form. The apse wasdestroyed, and the eastern arm of the building wasprolonged till it was almost equal to the nave, andfinished with a square east end, contrary to usual French 1 Laon et ses Environs, Lucien Broche. choir ch. v) EARLY FRENCH GOTHIC 87
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Laoncathedral Fig. 33. (Drawing by J. O. Scott. 88 EARLY FRENCH GOTHIC (ch. v Laon custom1. Lateral chapels were added in the 14th century cathedral as at Paris and Amiens, and the south transept wasThe remodelled in the same century. During the last century restoration , , ... . . . the towers threatened ruin, and extensive repairs hadto be undertaken, involving much reconstruction andunderpinning, and the antiquity of the building has inconsequence suffered considerably. The statuary of theportals is modern. The vaults The arches are pointed everywhere, and rest onmono-cylindric columns as at Paris. The vaults aresexpartite; the vaulting shafts rise from the nave capitals,in groups of five shafts and three alternately, correspondingto the alternation of the vaulting ribs. There is a vaultedtriforium gallery, and above it the second triforium ofNoyon and originally of Paris, with a passage in thewall (Fig. 33). When rebuilding the choir on a straight line thecolumns of the apse were

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