Identifier: lettersofarchite01wood (find matches)
Title: Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece
Year: 1828 (1820s)
Authors: Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864
Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture
Publisher: London : J. and A. Arch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d with a gable in the middle, and a tower ateach extremity, but without any thing below to carry the division ofthese parts down to the ground. The towers, however, have never beenfinished, and at present do not rise so high as the gable. On the sides ofthe nave, the windows of the clerestory are divided into three parts, withthree roses above them pyramidally disposed, but not united externally ina common arch. Besides the cathedral, there is a church dedicated to St. Paul, ofSaxon architecture, said to have been built by Saint Sacerdos,inthe sixthcentury, and repaired, first by Ledrade in 802, and afterwards by Hughthe First, in 1103. The ancient work remaining is probably of the lastdate, but the inside is a poor modern restoration. The intersection iscrowned with an octangular tower, ornamented with Norman arches, anda fine cornice with modillions, many of which are sculptured with theheads of men and animals. The church of St. Nizier is more deserving of attention; it was built I
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Co FR,CII AT AYNAI ST. NIZIER AT LYON. 131 by a citizen of the name of Renouard, who begun it in 1300, and finishedit before 1315, and we find here most of the characters of the fourthstyle of Gothic. There are small capitals at the springing of the archesof the nave, but the ribs are carried up and spread upon the vaultingwithout any thing to mark the termination of the upright part. TheAttic base is entirely abandoned, and we have a simple ogee in its place,and the bases of the different parts occur at different levels, though notwith all the intricacy which is found in some buildings of a later pe-riod. The vaulting in France seems to have proceeded gradually from thecircular to the obtusely pointed arch, and afterwards to the more acute ;it then flattened again in elliptic curves. I did not think that the latterchange had taken place so early as the beginning of the fourteenth cen-tury, but as we find some examples at St. Nizier, we may probablyassign to it this date. This church

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