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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from Normandy. Many of its buildings werelarge and important, and even won the admiration ofthe conquering Norman: and for a short period inNorthumbria the school produced sculpture of remarkableexcellence, scarcely equalled by any contemporary workin Southern Europe. The Saxon style bore strongertraces of Roman influence than the Norman which super-seded it, and which of all the Romanesque styles is leastaffected by Roman tradition. The first introduction ofthe foreign style into England by Edward the Confessor,—a style, as William of Malmesbury says, never beforeseen there,—was followed after the Conquest by such aburst of pulling down and reconstruction as was onlyequalled by the great period of cathedral building inFrance during the reign of Philip Augustus; and nogreat structure of Saxon times has survived it. In a former volume1 I have traced the progress ofEnglish Romanesque from the Conquest to 1170 or 1180; 1 Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture, vol. II. Plate LI7/ ■
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i. ... i. S. DAVIDS CATHEDRAL—The Nave ch. xi) THE TRANSITION 181 from the rude and semi-barbarous, though impressivesimplicity of Winchester and S. Albans, to the morerefined Norman of Ernulf and Conrad at Canterbury,the naves of Peterborough and Ely, and the delicatearcades of the Galilee at Durham. In all these the roundarch still held its own, and if the aisles were vaulted thenave was still ceiled with wood. In France meanwhile Beginningpointed architecture had appeared at S. Denis which was archi-begun in 1140, at Sens which was begun in 1143 an<^ France1finished in 1168, at Noyon and Paris which were begunin 1150 and 1163. The pointed arch had already madeits appearance in England as early as the middle of the12th century. The nave arcades of Fountains Abbey, Fountainsbuilt between 1140 and 1150 are pointed, though sur- fxbbe7mounted by a round arched clerestory. The transitionalnave of Worcester Cathedral, of which only the two Worcesterwestern bays remain, displayed a mi

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