George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers

The exterior of the church is exceedingly simple. There are doors at the west end and in the west bay of the north aisle. In front of the former there was a groined porch, of wh...

At 12.20 we left Paris for Evreux, going by railway to Vernon station. I expected much here and was much disappointed. The cathedral is a building whose substratum is good first...

And now I must leave the cathedral, and getting over the difficulties of the horrible pavement which distinguishes this end of the city as well as may be, take you to the Marien...

All the walls and arches are partially striped with black, the black courses being very thin with a considerable space between them. The north and south walls of the nave and tr...

In another church, S. Bartolomeo, I found a pulpit (also dated, etc.) made by Guido da Como in 1250. This is square in plan, supported partly in the wall and partly on three sha...

Such is the cathedral of Naumburg--little known to, and scarce ever visited by, English tourists; and yet undoubtedly one of the most interesting and least altered churches in G...

The cloister on the north side of the church appears to be in part coeval with the earliest,[39] or, perhaps, the second portion of the fabric, and in part with the later additi...

In the interior there is a very fine high tomb of a bishop--I think S. Omer--early in the thirteenth century, about of the same date as the south transept door. The altar now st...

7. A large number of fragments of the groining-ribs of the chancel, of the windows, etc. etc., were also found. The bulk of all these were built into the upper part of the chanc...

The north transept, however, contains something better than these monuments, and one of the greatest curiosities of the church--the chapel, as they call it, of S. Elizabeth. It...

Leaving Paris for Beauvais, the first station at which I stopped was l’Isle Adam, from whence a walk of two or three miles by the banks of the Oise brought me to the fine villag...

A sketch of perhaps the most magnificent example remaining of north German domestic architecture--the Rathhaus at Münster--will show you how, even with the most beautiful detail...

Next in grandeur, perhaps, to this church, is the east end of S. Martin’s. Seen from the street below the east end, its great height, and the combination of the apsidal transept...

His life thenceforth falls into such periods as Ezekiel counted,--a time and a time and half a time. Ten years, from 1855 to 1865, were given to church-building, to travel for t...

From Beauvais I made my way to Compiègne, where I found but little of much interest. The principal church is in size, plan, and general design, decidedly conspicuous; yet it is...

In plan this church has the remarkable peculiarity of a square east end, and consists of a nave and choir respectively of eleven and ten bays in length, transepts with an easter...

And now that I have ventured to say so much in the way of criticism upon what I believe most Frenchmen consider their most glorious church, and without any attempt at a detailed...

Occasionally always, when something called for it, he had written an open letter or a brief pamphlet of protest or vindication. Like all men of strong creative imagination, Stre...

How that was born at Oxford, and was baptized into the English church with the _Heir of Redclyffe_ for godfather, is hard to keep in mind. But Morris and Burne-Jones knew each o...

The steeple suggests comparison, in some respects, with that of the cathedral; the arches are built with alternately light and dark voussoirs, and there is a peculiar spire-ligh...

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At Beuzeville, where the Fécamp branch joins the main line of railway to Rouen, it is worth while to walk a mile and a half to the church, not because it is a fine building, but...

At Conques, south of Auvergne, is another church on the same plan as S. Étienne, Nevers, in almost every respect, which there is little doubt was completed in the first half of...

I have here a large collection (which should have been larger had I had time to select all the examples which I have scattered through my sketch-books) of German window tracerie...

You have, then, first of all, a few buildings, such as the convent at Lörsch, which are said to be and perhaps are of Roman design. Then next there is an immense group of church...

Lübeck, 37, 38, 270, 286, 314, 319, 324; Burg-Kloster, 272, 276, 278, 280; cathedral, 272; S. Giles, 272, 281; S. James, 272, 281; S. Katharine, 272, 276, 278; S. Mary, 275, 321...

“Two foreigners deserve especial place and mention in this survey, the English Street and the French Enlart. Street was an architect, profoundly versed in Christian art, Gothic...

In the course of last autumn,[28] after having spent three weeks in climbing Swiss mountains, I was able to devote a few days, on my way home, to a district which, as far as I h...

[42] It is very difficult to understand precisely where these hangings were found. M. Aymard, a distinguished antiquary at Le Puy, in the _Album Photographique d’Archéologie Rel...