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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hman, though perhaps of Frenchor Norman extraction. West of the work of Bishop Hugh of Avalon remainedthe central tower of the Norman church, and the nave ofFail of the Remigius with the stone vault of Bishop Alexander. Intower 1237 or 1239 the old tower fell, crushing in its fall, it issaid, the vault of Bishop Hughs choir, and injuring someof his piers. And this introduces the controversy thathas raged over the date and original construction of thispart of the building. It has been maintained by Mr Bond Thearchitect 1 Consecratus est Cantuariae vicesimo secundo Julii 1123. Anno deindesequente ecclesia ejus Cathedralis, nuper constructa et vix dum absoluta,fortuito incendio conflagravit. Quam refecit ille, et contra similes casusmunivit, laqueari addito fornicato. 2 The plan is given differently by different writers. I take that byMr Watkins, published in the Journal of the Royal Institute of BritishArchitects, vol. xvill. 3rd series, p. 35. CH. XIl) EARLY ENGLISH 20I IS > J i n n
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