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. 82. Plate LXV1
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juuliiijiMi T. G. j. LINO ILN ( ATHEDRAL The Choir ch. xn) EARLY ENGLISH 203 we attach to the plan of his piers (Fig. 82) with the four Lincolnchannellings made to receive four marble colonnettes, ofwhich the back one took the aisle vault, and the two sideones the arcade, while the front one, of which the lowerpart was cut away for the stalls about 1370, but of whichthe base remains, could have had no other purpose thanthat of sustaining the high vault of the choir. The aisle walls of S. Hughs work have a curious The double 0 t wall arcade double arcade. The inner arcading consists of pointedarches well moulded, and carried on detached shafts ; theouter of not very graceful trefoiled arches, also carried ondetached shafts with a label moulding and carved figuresin the spandril (Fig. 83). A great point is made of this wall arcade by thosewho hold that S. Hugh did not intend to vault his aisles.They contend that the front arcade was put on when, bya change of purpose, vaulting was propo

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