Identifier: historyantiquiti02bray (find matches)
Title: The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854 Armstrong, Cosmo Byfield, John, 1788-1841 Byrne, Elizabeth Douthitt Byrne, John, 1786-1847 Carter, James, 1798-1855 Cleghorn, John Cooke, George, 1781-1834 Le Keux, Henry, 1787-1868 Le Keux, John, 1783-1846 Lewis, J., fl. 1818-1823 Matthews, T Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870 Neale, John Preston, 1780-1847 Radclyffe, William, 1780-1855 Roffe, Robert Cabbell, d. 1839 Roffe, John, 1769-1850 Sands, Robert, 1782-1855 Scott, John, 1774-1827 Smith, W. R., fl. before 1832-1851 Taylor, William Dean, 1794-1857 Thompson, James Robert, b. ca. 1799 Tingle, James, fl. 1824-1850 Varrall, John Charles, fl. 1818-1848 Willement, Thomas, 1786-1871 Woolnoth, W. (William)
Subjects: Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey Abbots Deans, Cathedral and collegiate Architecture, Gothic Church buildings Church architecture
Publisher: London : Published by the proprietor, J.P. Neale, Bennett-Street, Blackfriars-Road and sold also by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ignorant architect, who undertakes to build the Cloister, so that thebuttresses should be without the Cloister spanning over it. This was a dan-gerous attempt; it is by due consideration of the statick principles, and theright poizing of the weight of the butments to the arches, that good architec-ture depends ; and the butments ought to have equal gravity on both sides.Although this was done to flatter the humour of the monks, yet the archi- * The Elevation in Plate XXXIII. shews the eastern extremity of the South Transept; as wellas portions of the east end of the Church itself, with its central tower, and of the attached Chapels,including that of Henry the Seventh. The acute-headed doorway beneath the large window on theleft, is that which opens into Poets Corner; and the Pointed Window seen over the buttress of Henrythe Sevenths Chapel, on the right, is one of those described in the text as varying from the genera!form of the upper range of windows belonging to the small Chapels.
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EXTERIOR OF THE SOUTH SIDE. 17 tect should have considered that new work carried very high would shrink ;from hence the walls above the windows are forced out ten inches, and theribs broken*. The reprehension contained in this paragraph was notdeserved, for the immediate connection of the Cloisters with the Church wasassuredly in accordance with the original design ; and, all things considered,no architect, perhaps, could have devised a more judicious method of coun-teracting the difficulties inseparable from the plan than that which has beenemployed. The first six buttresses, westward from the Transept, have theirbases within the Cloister Green, and are each connected with the walls of theChurch by four arch-buttresses of considerable magnitude, the uppermostof which extends over the aisle. The specific gravity of every buttress is farmore than equal to the lateral pressure which they have to sustain ; so that thederangements noticed by Sir Christopher were most probably owing* to a

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