Identifier: attempttodiscrim00rick (find matches)
Title: An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Oxford : J. H. Parker
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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pure Norman mouldings, but theshafts are in two rows, stand free, and have a round abacusof several mouldings, which are quite Early English. Theother, part of Ketton Church, has the square Norman abacusand semicircular arch with Norman mouldings, and anotherpointed one on the side; but both these have a dripstone filledwith the toothed ornament, which also runs down by the shafts,which are banded, and have an Early English base. (The west end of Iffley Church, Oxfordshire, is an early ex-ample of the transition; it may be called Norman, but it isvery late in the style, and the pointed arches on each side ofthe circular-headed doorway are quite transitional, (see thePlate.) - •> ^ > ^ • Carta Hamonis, ap. Hon. Ang., written by an eye-witness. See also ^*^l ^ ^ ^^■■ *^® engravings in the Yorkshii-e Fundationis Historia, MS. in Bibl. abbeys. Bodi. ap. Moil. Ang., vol. v. p. 531. Confirmation of Henry III., ap. The history of the foundation was Mon. Aug., vol. iv. p. 289.
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THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION. 101 It is quite necessary to allow a perird of Teaksitton- betweeneach of the styles. The most conspiciions of these is naturally thetime of change from the Eomanesque, or I^^orman style, distinguishedby its massive character and the oeneral use of the round arch,and the Gothic distinguished by its lightness, its peculiar mould-ings, and the general use of the pointed arch. But the pointed archalone is a very imsafe guide, and beginners are continually misledby the name of the Pointed style : the pointed arch was used occa-sionally at all periods, and was in very common use long before theGothic style was established. It was used in some countries muchearlier than in others, and in the south of France it appears to havebeen in common use at the end of the eleventh century, althonghnot accompanied by any other features of the Gothic style. Thebuilding art had made very rapid progrc ss there up to a certain point,and then stood still for above a century. This p

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