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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ts. Consequentlythe Norman style in English hands soon began tochange its character. This will be better understoodinfluence when we remember how much larger a part in buildingwas left to the individual workman in the Middle Ages,when there were no working drawings, when there wasno professional architect sitting in his office a hundredmiles away, directing the work by plan and letter, andwhen the master-mason—the real architect—made thedesign following the instructions of the bishop, lord, orabbot, by whom he was employed, but following themin his own manner, setting the building out on theground, and directing the construction on the spot, butleaving the details in a great measure to be filled in bythe artizans in each craft under his general direction. Thus the Norman style in English hands soon beganto take a distinctly national form, just as the Normansthemselves gradually were assimilated by the native race,and from being naturalized Frenchmen became naturalizedEnglishmen. ;
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.- - V1s\ CHAPTER XIII THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE, continued At the end of the 12th century the style which weknow as Early English was fully developed, and theround arch of the Roman and Romanesque periods hadfinally succumbed after a long struggle to the pointedarch of Gothic architecture. Only some seven years Peter-after the completion of the nave of Peterborough in the fronTf^ooNorman style the famous west front was begun in which t0 ,:::there are but faint traces of Romanesque. It forms amagnificent portico, which like that of a Greek temple isof the full height of the building, in front of a westerntransept of the same height. Over this transept wereto have been two towers, of which only one was finished,and the portico itself ends on each wing in a smallertower crowned with a spire (Plate LXVIII). The three arches are surmounted by three gables : The threethe middle one is the nave roof prolonged, the other two garun back to the towers behind them on the westerntransept, which ha

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