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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
the expense of the arcadeupper. In the old choir of Ernulf and Conrad, and thestill older choir of Lanfranc, the three storeys had beenproportioned in the Norman fashion, with a triforiumalmost as high as the arcade below it. We see thisproportion in the Norman transepts of Winchester, andin the naves of Norwich, Ely, and Peterborough. Atthe contemporary cathedral of Tournay in Belgium thetriforium seems the larger of the two. At S. Etienne,the Abbaye aux Hommes at Caen, where Lanfranc wasthe first abbot, which seems to have been the modelfor his cathedral at Canterbury, if the whole height isdivided into 32 parts, 13 go to the arcade, 10 to thetriforium, and 9 to the clerestory. Whereas in Williamthe Frenchmans choir at Canterbury, similarly divided,the arcade takes 18 parts, the triforium 5, and theclerestory 9. A glance at the two elevations will showthe enormous improvement effected by the new proportion(Fig. 78). 1 Gervase, cited in Williss Canterbury, p. 59. 192 ENGLAND (CH. XI
Text Appearing After Image:
ch. xi) THE TRANSITION 193 In the new work round and pointed arches are used Canter-together, but the latter predominate. Pointed arches cathedral.were not new in England as we have seen already. But ar°jJs andCanterbury may stand in England, as S. Denis in France, ^tedfor the first great building where the pointed arch togetheris frankly adopted as the ruling feature in construc-tion. Conrads aisle windows were lengthened upwards,but not carried to the full height of the new aisle, leavingroom above them for a second row of windows, with The newtrefoil heads, and a passage along them in the thicknessof the wall. These upper lights contain some of themost splendid examples of the painted glass for whichCanterbury is famous. The high vaulting is sexpartite, with pointed trans- The vaultverse arches, much stilted, springing from marble shaftsthat rise from the capitals of the great columns in thearcade ; these shafts are clustered for the main transverseand diagonal group of ribs, sing

Note About Images