Identifier: cathedralsabbeys01bonn (find matches)
Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t weight of a lantern of lead-covered oak, has been admired bya succession of competent judges, with Sir Christopher Wren at their head. Alan removed entirely the eastern ruins of Abbot Richards choir, and unitedthe new octagon to Northwolds presbytery by three bays of remarkable beauty.In these three bays Ely possesses probably the most perfect example extantof the pure Edwardian or Decorated style. In the six bays of Northwold theEarly English style is presented, as we have said, in grace and beauty well-nighunrivalled. Both are marked by a specialty full of interest. It is this:-—WhenNorthwold (or his architect) designed the presbytery, he respected the proportionsalready established by his predecessors, and carried his string-courses forward atthe same levels. Alan followed this excellent example in his tliree lovely bays.Hence the Early English and Decorated styles at Ely differ widely from thetypes of those styles as existing at Salisbury and at Lichfield. The lofty triforium,
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HO CO a o « :; a QW a H<1 Ely.1 constant changes. 195 the result of this unusual deference to the designs of earlier architects, must beregarded as a great peculiarity of this church, and its treatment has given occasionfor the introduction of work of the highest excellence. The eye ranges withentire satisfaction over the ornamentation lavished upon these nine bays. It isnever wearied with admiring the clustered colunms of Pmbeck marble, boldlycarved as to their capitals with masses of foliage, and the long corbels or culs-de-lampe of the same refractory material, each representing a marvellous amountof untiring industry as well as of artistic skill—the low open parapet runningalong the string-courses; the tracery of the triforium-opcnings and of the clerestorywindows; above, the rich vault. The changes introduced by successive bishops were not always improve-ments. Thus Bishop Barnet (1366—1373), unroofing the triforium of thepresbytery to the extent of two bays on each side,

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