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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work was to be joined. He had a clear site, andperfect freedom of design, and he has therefore beenable to show us in perfection what in his time was themediaeval conception of a cathedral. On the other handthere is none of that variety which invests many ofour great churches with a charm of their own. Theirpicturesqueness is accidental, not designed, for no onecan design an accident. When the Romans laid out anew town, or Edward I built a Bastide, of course all thestreets were straight, uniform in width, and at right angles:the crooked and irregular streets of London, Canterbury, 1 In quodam fundo, ubi nunc fundata est, ex antiquo nomine Miryfelde.Lelands J tin. The seat of Nicolas Wadham at Ilton, founder of the collegethat bears his name, was called Merifield. The word is said to mean theboundary field of the manor. Battens South Somerset. Mere orMear is a boundary, or landmark—New Ens;. Diet. 2 Cited Dodsworths Salisbury Cathedral. 232 EARLY ENGLISH (CH. XIII Salisburycathedral
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o Ul as •T3 a O H Q 1 § X * bo I 1 i i i i 1 I i i Ji ch. xiii) EARLY ENGLISH 233 or Norwich result from accident or individual fancy. SalisburyAnd so the architect of Salisbury cathedral having aclear field before him has given us a regular andsymmetrical plan, there being nothing to make it other-wise. As at Wells and Winchester the high roofs end withthe choir proper, beyond which at a lower level chapels Theextend eastward; and there are the two transepts which transeptform a characteristic feature of great English churchesrIn France they occurred at the abbey of Cluny, andthey remain at the church of S. Quentin1. The secondtransept at Canterbury existed in the choir of Conradbefore the time of French William. Besides Salisburyand Canterbury the second transept is to be found atHereford, Lincoln, Rochester, Beverley, Worcester, andin a modified form at York, Southwell, and Wells. Elyand Peterborough have a second transept at the westend, and Durham and Fountains at the east. Th

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