Identifier: introductiontost00park_0 (find matches)
Title: An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Oxford: J. Parker and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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165. St. MichaePs, Coventry, c. 1500.Shewing a panelled inner roof, or ceiling, with arched tie-heams. work, and it is easy to imagine that a ehurcli of thetwelfth or thirteenth century has been newly furnishedin the fifteenth or sixteenth. We have, however, some this custom prevailed in many other counties also, but the western loft hasgenerally been destroyed in consequence of the barbarous custom of block-*ing up the tower-arch, which is often the finest feature in the church. 210 PERPENDICULAR HOUSES AND CASTLES. very beautiful examples of Decorated wood-work inscreens, and stalls with their canopies, as at Win-
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PERPENDICULAR HOUSES AND CASTLES, 211 The Eedcliffe Church, Bristol, the west front and south porchof Gloucester Cathedral, and part of the choir of St. AlbansAbbey Church, with the tomb of Abbot Wheathampstead, arealso of this period, and good specimens of the style. Withinthe next twenty years we have a crowd of examples, which it isnot necessary to enumerate. But a few more specimens of the later period of this style canhardly be passed over, such as St. Georges Chapel, Windsor,Kings College Chapel, Cambridge, and Henry the SeventhsChapel, Westminster; and of the very latest before the changeof style, Bath Abbey Church, the Savoy Chapel, in the Strand,London, with its very beautiful panelled ceiling, and WhistonChurch, Northants. Castles and houses of this style are numerous, and many ofthem very fine; the fortifications gradually disappear, or areused more for show than for use. Several of the colleges ofOxford and Cambridge are fine examples of this style, par-taking very much of

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