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of this were formerly filled with stained glass, and thus rendered warm, dry, and
particularly elegant. " In general," observes Mr. Dallaway, in his Observations on
English Architecture, p. 35, "from the opportunities which occurred to me of
making the observation, this kind of building on the Continent is extremely inferior.
Almost every convent has its cloisters, and those annexed to the great churches are
probably the best; but they are chiefly plain, unornamented inclosures, for the
purposes of exercise and devotion. The most extensive I saw, those at Pisa, while
the contiguous buildings are in a style of the highest Lombard-Gothic, are in a
great measure void of architectural embellishment; which deficiency is supplied by
the works of Giotto and his scholars. Less frequently, indeed, the walls are
covered with the fresco paintings ; of which the more celebrated instances are that
at Florence, in the monastery of the Annunciation, where is the Madonna del Sacco,
by Andrea del Sarto, and that of the Carthusians at Paris, where Le Sueur has so
admirably described the life and death of St. Bruno. In the fifteenth century, the
windows of cloisters in England and France were generally filled with scriptural
stories, in series, in stained glass, and the walls sometimes painted in fresco."
In the following letter, a valuable correspondent gives an account of the time of
building, and architectural character, of the cloister at Norwich.
"Dear Sir, "Hare Street, Romford, July, 1811.
" Inclosed are two volumes of drawings collected from different parts
of Norwich Cathedral, which I made, during my leisure, in the years 1/94 and
1795 ; and if you find any thing worth your attention, you are welcome to make any
use of them you may think proper for the Architectural Antiquities.
Among this collection, perhaps, the specimens of windows from the cloister of
the cathedral are most deserving of notice, as shewing the progress of architecture
from the reign of Edward I. to Henry IV. when the cloister was completed. Ac-
cording to Blomefield, it was begun by Ralph de Walpole in 1297, and finished in
the year 1430 ; which was 133 years in building.
Throughout the whole four sides of the quadrangle, the groinings, and even the
details of the columns and of the rib-mouldings, are built in the style of architecture
of Edwards I. and II. in order to preserve the uniformity of the building. It is
only in the design of the windows that the progress of architecture can be here
ascertained! The eastern part of the cloister partakes of the style and character
of the reign of Edward I. having trefoil openings within triangles : (see Plate III. E.)
ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
of this were formerly filled with stained glass, and thus rendered warm, dry, and
particularly elegant. " In general," observes Mr. Dallaway, in his Observations on
English Architecture, p. 35, "from the opportunities which occurred to me of
making the observation, this kind of building on the Continent is extremely inferior.
Almost every convent has its cloisters, and those annexed to the great churches are
probably the best; but they are chiefly plain, unornamented inclosures, for the
purposes of exercise and devotion. The most extensive I saw, those at Pisa, while
the contiguous buildings are in a style of the highest Lombard-Gothic, are in a
great measure void of architectural embellishment; which deficiency is supplied by
the works of Giotto and his scholars. Less frequently, indeed, the walls are
covered with the fresco paintings ; of which the more celebrated instances are that
at Florence, in the monastery of the Annunciation, where is the Madonna del Sacco,
by Andrea del Sarto, and that of the Carthusians at Paris, where Le Sueur has so
admirably described the life and death of St. Bruno. In the fifteenth century, the
windows of cloisters in England and France were generally filled with scriptural
stories, in series, in stained glass, and the walls sometimes painted in fresco."
In the following letter, a valuable correspondent gives an account of the time of
building, and architectural character, of the cloister at Norwich.
"Dear Sir, "Hare Street, Romford, July, 1811.
" Inclosed are two volumes of drawings collected from different parts
of Norwich Cathedral, which I made, during my leisure, in the years 1/94 and
1795 ; and if you find any thing worth your attention, you are welcome to make any
use of them you may think proper for the Architectural Antiquities.
Among this collection, perhaps, the specimens of windows from the cloister of
the cathedral are most deserving of notice, as shewing the progress of architecture
from the reign of Edward I. to Henry IV. when the cloister was completed. Ac-
cording to Blomefield, it was begun by Ralph de Walpole in 1297, and finished in
the year 1430 ; which was 133 years in building.
Throughout the whole four sides of the quadrangle, the groinings, and even the
details of the columns and of the rib-mouldings, are built in the style of architecture
of Edwards I. and II. in order to preserve the uniformity of the building. It is
only in the design of the windows that the progress of architecture can be here
ascertained! The eastern part of the cloister partakes of the style and character
of the reign of Edward I. having trefoil openings within triangles : (see Plate III. E.)