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architectural antiquities.
Church, which contains some beautiful tombs for persons of that house, and to
them may be ascribed many of its enrichments.
External elevation of the south front of the greater transept, No. 41 in the list.
The completeness, the regularity, and the fine proportions of this elevation, make
it worthy of minute examination ; such an example of the style of the thirteenth
century being very rarely met with. The circular arch over the door shews that
the pointed one had not entirely banished the more ancient form when this erection
was designed. The north end of the transept is similar to this, but has not been
quite so well preserved.67
Elevations of one compartment, or bay, of the lesser transept, No. 42 in the list.
In these delineations we see the original lines of the architecture designed for the
whole structure, which are here intermixed with very little embellishment of a
later style; the parapets of the roofs being the only parts not properly belonging
to the first design. The double arcades over the aisles, seen in the interior, seem
to have been contrived to produce something of perspective effect, by the depression
of the arches which stand behind those of the front range.
Details of Beverley Minster, No. 43 in the list. These delineations serve to
define the architectural members more explicitly and clearly than could be shewn
in the small scale of the preceding plates, a, is a niche in one of the buttresses
of the nave, b, trefoil-headed arcade, with sculptured busts at the junction of
the mouldings, c, arcade, in the triforium of the small transept, d, arcade,
acute arch, side of window in clerestory, nave, with capitals, bases, and plan.
e, pinnacle to buttress, nave, f, capital and archivolt mouldings in nave, g,
base to ditto. h, parapet to clerestory.
Elevations of one bay of the nave, interior and exterior, No 44 in the list. The
rich tracery, and sculptured details, which became fashionable in the fourteenth
century, are here superadded to the simple outlines displayed in other parts.
Many of these enriched members may find a parallel in the nave of the Mother
Church of York, with which Beverley Minster was always intimately connected;
67 The north wing of this transept had so far declined from its perpendicular that the front overhung
its base more than four feet, and stood in a most dangerous way; when Mr. Wm. Thornton, carpenter,
of York, undertook and effected its restoration, by means of a huge frame of timber resting on screws.
Two plates, representing this ingenious operation, erroneously attributed to Hawksmoor, by Horace Wal-
pole and other writers, were published in 1739.
architectural antiquities.
Church, which contains some beautiful tombs for persons of that house, and to
them may be ascribed many of its enrichments.
External elevation of the south front of the greater transept, No. 41 in the list.
The completeness, the regularity, and the fine proportions of this elevation, make
it worthy of minute examination ; such an example of the style of the thirteenth
century being very rarely met with. The circular arch over the door shews that
the pointed one had not entirely banished the more ancient form when this erection
was designed. The north end of the transept is similar to this, but has not been
quite so well preserved.67
Elevations of one compartment, or bay, of the lesser transept, No. 42 in the list.
In these delineations we see the original lines of the architecture designed for the
whole structure, which are here intermixed with very little embellishment of a
later style; the parapets of the roofs being the only parts not properly belonging
to the first design. The double arcades over the aisles, seen in the interior, seem
to have been contrived to produce something of perspective effect, by the depression
of the arches which stand behind those of the front range.
Details of Beverley Minster, No. 43 in the list. These delineations serve to
define the architectural members more explicitly and clearly than could be shewn
in the small scale of the preceding plates, a, is a niche in one of the buttresses
of the nave, b, trefoil-headed arcade, with sculptured busts at the junction of
the mouldings, c, arcade, in the triforium of the small transept, d, arcade,
acute arch, side of window in clerestory, nave, with capitals, bases, and plan.
e, pinnacle to buttress, nave, f, capital and archivolt mouldings in nave, g,
base to ditto. h, parapet to clerestory.
Elevations of one bay of the nave, interior and exterior, No 44 in the list. The
rich tracery, and sculptured details, which became fashionable in the fourteenth
century, are here superadded to the simple outlines displayed in other parts.
Many of these enriched members may find a parallel in the nave of the Mother
Church of York, with which Beverley Minster was always intimately connected;
67 The north wing of this transept had so far declined from its perpendicular that the front overhung
its base more than four feet, and stood in a most dangerous way; when Mr. Wm. Thornton, carpenter,
of York, undertook and effected its restoration, by means of a huge frame of timber resting on screws.
Two plates, representing this ingenious operation, erroneously attributed to Hawksmoor, by Horace Wal-
pole and other writers, were published in 1739.