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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n the same way. Kirkstall,Furness, Valle-Crucis, and Buildwas (Fig. 93), whichhave best preserved their original plans, have shortaisleless presbyteries ending square without any easternaisle or ambulatory. Abbey Dore and Byland (Fig. 93)have square east ends, and Byland has an eastern aislealso square. Dore has the same with the addition ofchapels ; but originally it ended probably like Buildwas.Netley, Rievaulx, and Tintern (Fig. 93), which are laterin date, have presbyteries with two aisles all run out tothe same length, ending square and without eastern aisleor chapels. Fountains ends square with an easterntransept, like that at Durham, though it is not part ofthe original plan. The same severe squareness of outline Square , r^. . iii transeptal appears in the Cistercian transepts, which have square chapelschapels on their eastern side instead of the apsidal 1 V.-le-Duc, Diet. Rats, vol. I. pp. 270-2. Cluny and Clairvaux wereapsidal. 224 EARLY ENGLISH (ch. xiii The Cistercian plan
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bo ch. xiii) EARLY ENGLISH 225 chapels of Lincoln and Christchurch1. A Galilee or Cistercianwestern porch,—a sort of narthex,—was a Cistercianfeature, of which there are traces at Byland, Fountains,and Rievaulx. There is one still remaining at theCistercian church of Pontigny in Burgundy. The strict Cistercian rule forbad all ornamental details Ornamentbut such as were of the most abstract form. There wasto be no carving except under the most rigid restrictions.In the earlier examples, such as Buildwas and Furness,the capitals were of the fluted cushion type ; and when,as at Abbey Dore and Valle-Crucis, anything furtherwas allowed the foliage was of the severest and mostconventional kind. The English moulded capital lent The 1 r ii #-»■ • • i#ii moulded itself well to Cistercian requirements, and in the later capitalchurches,—Netley, Rievaulx, and Tintern,—the capitalsare all of that sort. But though, like the Mussulman, the Cistercian was Cisterciandeprived of the reso

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