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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Fig. 28. On the north side of the nave was a small cloister,said to have been built in 1270, of which only the west Plate IX \
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1. G.J. NOYON—West front ch. iv) THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD 77 walk remains, and that is much broken. The carving is Noyonnaturalesque here and in the fine chapter house opening ™fsterout of it. The foliage round the inside of the entrance ad 0 chapter archway is extraordinarily natural, and reminds one of housethat at Southwell. In the choir of the church of S. Germain des Pres at s. Ger-Paris, which was consecrated in 1163, there is the same pres, Parismixture of round and pointed arches as at Noyon. Thearcade is round-arched but the high vaults are pointed.The aisles have round transverse arches, with very domicalvaults. I n the nave the piers are elongated, like fragmentsof a wall, and have attached half columns for the archesand one in front running up to the high vault. There isno triforium in the nave, but in the choir there is onewith square headed lights which are united by shafts tothe clerestory so as to form one composition with it(Fig. 28). Several of the capitals are qu

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