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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f thescreen-wall is disagreeable and the ornament is tooevenly spread over the whole surface. Far more satisfactory is the front of Wells (PlateLXXII I), which is very like it in detail, but much betterin general design. Built by Bishop Jocelin, perhapsincluded in the consecration of 1239, at all eventsprobably finished before his death in 1242, it is in astyle entirely different from the nave. The westfront, says Freeman, is built in that form of EarlyGothic which is common in other parts of England, thestyle of Ely, Lincoln, and Salisbury. The rest of theearly work is built in a style which in England isalmost peculiar to Somersetshire, South Wales, and theneighbouring counties, and which is much more likeFrench work1. There is evidence that the westernbays of the nave were also built by Jocelin; but as they, Wells cathedral front 1 The Cathedral Church of Wells, E. A. Freeman. But the only thingabout it that seems to me like French work is the square abacus. CH. XIIl) EARLY ENGLISH
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237 Salisburyv cathedral Fig. 96. 238 EARLY ENGLISH (ch. xiii Weils though differing in some respects from the parts eastward,cathedral are jn ^ same manner, the difference between his workthere and in the west front can only be accounted forby his having brought in workmen from Salisbury, thenbeing built by Bishop Poore, or from the same sourcewhence his friend got them, instead of continuing thelocal masons whom he had employed in the early partof his episcopate1. The facade is expanded laterally by the towers whichstand out beyond the aisles, and thus give a fine breadthof front to what is really one of our smaller cathedrals.The Deep buttresses project from the towers both in front and at their sides, which are filled with niches, tier abovetier, for a population of more than 300 figures. Manyof these have disappeared but enough remain to makethis the finest collection of figure sculpture in the kingdom(Plate LXXIV).Horizontal In the general design the horizontal line is strongly

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