Category: History - British

Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 2

western portals, i. 126, 144, 167; shrine of the proto-martyr, 187; ii. 95, 100. Trumpington’s work, i. 286; eastern parts of, 286, 343; Roman brick, ii. 75; piers, 78; transepts, aisles of, 90; plan, 96, 115; choir, 101; tower, 103; Abbot Paul’s work, 104; central tower, 107,...

Chapters

1. ii. 94, 118, 122;

western portals, i. 126, 144, 167; shrine of the proto-martyr, 187; ii. 95, 100. Trumpington’s work, i. 286; eastern parts of, 286, 343; Roman brick, ii. 75; piers, 78; transept...

2. ii. 75, 78, 303, 305;

semicircular or segmental, i. 49, 244; in rims or orders, 224; of windows, their filling in, 253; suggest a higher pitch of roof than trabeated construction, 255; as to form, 35...

3. ii. 66;

4. ii. 295, 322-326;

latest original style of, i. 6; of the Western Empire, 12; of the Eastern Empire, ii. 4, 6, 7; new phase of, under Rollo, i. 44; purely arcuated, 47; secular, of Italian cities,...

5. ii. 153, 170, 214, 247;

Basilica, Christianised Roman, i. 39, 51, 337; converted into a vaulted structure, 71; Roman, 48; windows of, 54; St. Peter’s, Rome, ii. 28, 29; secular, 20; at Ripon, built by...

6. ii. 306, 308;

7. ii. 306;

Byzantine foliage, i. 321; ii. 7; route by which it may have reached the north of France, i. 82; carving in north-west portal of Lincoln Cathedral, 85; carving at St. Denis, 98;...

8. ii. 94, 120, 130;

water-leaf form, i. 120; varied patterns of, 232; Corinthianesque, 80, 152; at St. Mark’s, Venice, 82; Coliseum, _ibid._; St. Front, Perigueux, 83; column of Marcion, Constantin...

9. ii. 141;

Norman, 78; carving of, resembling Greek foliage, 131; in orders, 78; primary idea of, 84; in the Confessor’s buildings at Westminster, and crypt at Winchester, 85; St. Etienne,...

10. ii. 123;

Classic, antiquity, appreciation of, i. 2, 3, 336; relinquishment of proportion, 49; form of capital in French transitional work, 81; mouldings, 249; modern mouldings, _ibid._;...

11. ii. 143;

12. ii. 142-144;

double, in arcades, i. 230; decorative and functional, 231; baluster, ii. 37, 38, 41, 43, 46, 47, 50, 52; decorative or shafts, 76, 77; in Norman work, 78, 79, 158; proportional...

13. ii. 298;

14. ii. 181;

Crypt, at St. Denis, i. 80, 91; at Trinity Chapel, Canterbury, 155, 157; overground at St. Etheldreda’s, Holborn, 182; at Canterbury, ii. 29, 65, 158; York, 29; Lastingham, 30,...

15. ii. 153, 168, 169, 171, 172, 174, 228-289;

contemporary with our mediæval structures in neighbouring countries, 229; the earliest known assumes in section the pointed arch, 230; the great outward pressure requires abutme...

16. ii. 136, 149;

17. ii. 42;

Durham Cathedral, ii. 120, 124, 126-129, 135; galilee, i. 106; chapter-house, 107; chapel of the Nine Altars, 140, 201, 286; groining to the central space, ii. 88, 128; transept...

18. ii. 324;

19. ii. 151;

east end windows, i. 160; eastern bays and front, 190; transepts, double aisles, ii. 89, 105, 110; Abbot Symeon’s work, 108; transept piers, 111; nave piers, _ibid._; triforium...

20. ii. 312;

France, foreign study to commence with, i. 33; ii. 3; the great centre of mediæval art, i. 33; early work in north, 41; transition in, 70, 73; 13th century domestic architecture...

21. ii. 151;

Germany, i. 33, 41; architectural movements in, 44; the transition in, 70, 72, 328; early roofs in, 254; modern houses in, 259; halls and feudal castles of, 260; domestic brick...

22. ii. 214;

Gothic architecture, claims upon our study, i. 6, 16; abstract beauty of, 18; adaptability to varied climates and buildings, 20, 21; its freedom in ornamentation, 25; southern e...

23. ii. 79, 80, 87, 149, 155-160, 162, 172, 247;

24. ii. 180;

25. ii. 100;

26. ii. 76, 77, 80, 84, 102, 156;

Italy, i. 33, 142; architecture in south, 48; street palaces of, 148, 205; early churches of, ii. 36; campaniles of, 38; lessons from, used by the Anglo-Saxons, 60; pendentive d...

27. ii. 72;

Byzantine carving in north-west portal, i. 85; choir and eastern transepts, 126, 139, 144; eastern windows, 163; south entrance to eastern part, 167; “Angel Choir,” 276; eastern...

28. ii. 94;

Easter sepulchre, i. 304; foliage, figure sculpture, and wood-carving, 306; wall-painting and stained glass, 307; capitals from, ii. 120; two chapels near the west end, 198; vau...

29. ii. 306;

30. ii. 88, 93, 116, 120, 130, 135, 162, 324;

31. i. 336;

Mediæval, architecture, equally classic with the architecture, of the ancient world, i. 3; its study, 3, 34, 50; its claims, 4; the termination of the history of original and ge...

32. ii. 62, 73, 74, 82;

_pre_-Norman English churches, 19, 26, 35; period in Irish work, 22, 23; earlier, in England, 58; _pre_-conquestal, 3, 59, 72-89; _pre_-Norman sculpture, 60; originality of, 63;...

33. ii. 95;

Paris, district round, i. 33; Nôtre Dame, 97, 100, 102, 126, 141, 144, 166, 321; St Germain des Près, 62, 65, 85, 92; Montmartre, 102, 319; the focus of the transition, 73; Sain...

34. ii. 114, 280-299;

35. ii. 298, 299, 301;

36. ii. 33, 99;

Piers, ii. 76; subdivision of, i. 48; and arches, 225; decorated shafts substituted for, ii. 76; orders, 76, 78; clustered, 78, 146-148, 151; in vaulting, 79, 158; development o...

37. ii. 108, 181;

Pointed architecture, claims of, i. 4, 14, 17; love for, 3; said by some to be the property of the Roman Church, 8; Christian style, 9; originally Pagan, 9; essentially our own...

38. ii. 2, 5;

39. ii. 151;

40. ii. 259, 261;

Romanesque, i. 13; in France and Germany, 15, 33; ii. 7; cathedrals of Germany, i. 43; refined variety of, 44; leading characteristics, 48; religious to the utmost extreme, 49;...

41. ii. 303, 304;

Rome, her arts and literature, i. 5; early architecture of, 45; early windows of, 250; empire of, ii. 4, 297; architecture of, 6; St. Peter’s, 115, 253, 280-289; St. Paul withou...

42. ii. 231-234, 237, 244, 246, 253, 260, 262, 282, 283;

43. ii. 5, 8, 134, 178;

44. ii. 311;

45. ii. 184, 210;

46. ii. 291, 297, 325;

47. ii. 126;

48. ii. 324;

Stephen’s, St., at Caen, ii. 64; first abbot of, 65; gallery to transepts, 66; apsidal chapel on the triforium level, _ibid._; choir, _ibid._; western towers, _ibid._; piers, _i...

49. ii. 163-165, 172;

50. ii. 324;

51. ii. 237, 238;

Thirteenth century, i. 6, 47; rigour of the system of vaulting in the, 64; magnificent capitals in French work of the, 85, 137; work in England, 139; work in France, 140, 204, 3...

52. ii. 88, 93, 116, 120, 130, 135, 162, 324;

53. ii. 5, 73, 136, 138, 140, 303;

Transitional style, i. 69; first developed in the Royal domain of France, 73; English, 70, 75, 103, 134, 247, 337, 341; German, 75, 128, 134; Italian, 75; French, 75-103, 134; c...

54. ii. 79, 136, 149, 153, 157, 160, 228;

where avoided, i. 47; thickness of wall to resist thrust of, 49; endeavour to perfect the system of, 51; comprising two bays of nave, common in German round-arched churches, 62;...

55. ii. 196;

56. ii. 180;

perfected, i. 147; ribbed, rationale of, 238, 246, 274, 344; to the nave of St. Stephen’s, Caen, ii. 67; Norman, 79, 87; round-arched, 153, 168, 171, 191; of the polygon, 162, 1...

57. ii. 79, 149, 153, 157-160, 305;

square groined, i. 240; in early Irish remains, ii. 14, 21; wagon, 87, 89, 93; over wide spaces, 180; irregular spaces, _ibid._; demi-vaults at Gloucester, 121; rendered ornamen...

58. ii. 95;

59. ii. 87;

Western Europe, churches of, i. 51; thirteenth century work in, 137; buildings of, in the twelfth century, ii. 7; carved ornamentation of, 8; architecture of, in A.D. 1000, 62.

60. ii. 35, 189, 311;

bar-tracery, i. 163; geometrical system of tracery, 276; window-glazing, 252; soffit of rere-arch richly panelled, 283; eastern portions, 343; chapter-house, 177, 287; work of E...

61. ii. 156, 202, 217, 219;

62. ii. 103, 115, 128;

eastern chapels, i. 127, 144, 286; as rebuilt in the reign of Edgar, ii. 33; gallery across transepts, 66; capitals in the crypt, 85; transepts, aisles of, 89, 105; piers of tra...

63. ii. 136;

clerestory, i. 51; determined by vaulting, 63; pointed arch used for, 66; leading architectural features, 147, 158; traceried and mullioned, 160, 162; circular, 161; Italian, Fr...

64. ii. 122;

65. ii. 99;

66. ii. 199;

67. ii. 147;

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