Britton, John: The architectural antiquities of Great Britain: represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of ancient English edifices ; with historical and descriptive accounts of each (Band 5) (1835)

dr. milner's opinion of the origin of the pointed style.

*» the wide semicircular arches cross and intersect each other, and form thereby
at their intersection exactly a narrow sharp-pointed arch.-' He then noUces the
" interlaced arches," as he terms them, in the choir of the church of St G«-,
which afterwards afforded Dr. Milner a favorable subject for comment and infe-
rence. , .

The latter writer, after remarking on the ardour with which ***** archi-
'e«ure was cultivated by the Normans, says, « They viedwith each other intle
^ndenr and beauty of their respective structures. For ftejoroter of fte*
*c.s, grandeur, £j gave to their churches the greates^h
'heir p„Wer; for the latter, beauty, they enrtched tbem with a variety
to") ornaments, several of which appear to be of their <** ««*«• Jh° ™
eommOTof ftese „as fte arCade. orser.es of arches, wth winch some ot the
hidings tas, for example, the outside of St. Osy.h's and St.
« churches in Essex and the inside of Durham, on the basemen. - J -

.....ered over, a„d which occur, more or less, on all their cathedral and c nven „a

eh-rches, extant These arcades were diversified many ways, a, may

'"'y seen on „,e tower of St. Augustine's Monastery in Canterbury bby .

fl«' Norman abbot, Scotlaudns, in ,080. One of these

the semicircular arches intersect each other . '^'^/^d far
-'ersected formed a new kind of arch, of more graceful ^
better calculated to give an idea of height than the "T™'V^jJ "eZ
°»e must be convinced, that a pyramid or obelisk, from, lB aspiring
* he taller ftM ft, di meter of a semicircle, when both arc of the sam me ore
T1'eSe pUh, and intosecting arcades were sometimes placed, m alternate i^, as
» RemigWs work on fte ^j, 0f Lincoln Cathedral; and sometimes n egula ly
f*™d«d, as on the north side of Durham Cathedral. The pointed arch, d u
fo"»ed, appeared a. firs, a mere ornament in basso relievo, as ,n <h abov ■
"°«ed i„s,anccs ; bul soon it waS also seen in a .o -el,».•

'ecesses in fte inside of cturches, as in the re— of the C»*edral
h»'y. built by 1 anfranc and in the abbey churches of Glastonbury and Kumsey.
It;. , ,,5 1-anllanc' aIIU . ' ,. i-pnrone were the twenty windows
't is probable, that the fir* open pointed arches in bin ope w ,

constructed by that great patron of architecture, Henry De Blo's brother of King
S'ephen, and Bishop of Winchester, in the choir of the church of St. Cross, nea,

" History, &c. of Ely Cathedral," sect. vi. p. 37, edit 1812.