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ENGLISH GOTIIIC AECHITECTUEE.
Book VJTT.
form which has heen clenominated lancet. Thongh fonndin Normandy,
it is there the exception, while in Engdand for ahove half a centniy it.
was alrnost nniversally employed, ancl often with great heanty. The
windows, for instance, callecl the Five Sisters in the nortli transept of
York cathedral, thongh merely tall, simple, nndivided openings, are as
fine as anything of their class execnted afterwarcls, and hoth externally
and intemally have a constructive soliclity ancl grandeur not fonnd in
the later mullioned examples. Their one defect is their insufficiency
for the display of painted glass, which, however, at the tirne at which
fhey were designecl, had liardly come much into fashion in England.
The first great catheclral huilt completely in the new style was
Salishury, hegnn in 1220
and finished in all essentials
in 1258. Eestoring, in ima-
gination at least, the painted
glass which once filled all
its windows and the colour
that once covered the walls
and vaults, its internal effect.
must have heen extremely
heautiful; far more so than
fhat of its great rival at
Amiens, with whicli it is so
often compared, though of
scarcely half the dimensions.
It must he rememhered that
in the French cathedral the
clerestory or “ haut. oeuvre”
was not erected till after
tlie great fire in 1258, when
Salishury was complete, and
is, therefore, tlre work of a
more advanced age. As it
at present stands, there is a
coldness and leanness ahout
Salishury that detracts con-
siderahly from its effect; hut
this is owing far more to
modern ahominations than
to anything inherent in the
design.
Externally the effect of
tliis cathedral is even hetter
than that of the interior.
690. rian of Salisbury Calhedral. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. Tll6 hold hl'eaking of tlie
out.line hy the two transepts
instead of cutting it up hy huttresses and pinnaclcs is a master-stroke
ot art; and its nohle central tower, wliich, though erected at a later age,
was evidently intended from the first, crowns the whole composition
ENGLISH GOTIIIC AECHITECTUEE.
Book VJTT.
form which has heen clenominated lancet. Thongh fonndin Normandy,
it is there the exception, while in Engdand for ahove half a centniy it.
was alrnost nniversally employed, ancl often with great heanty. The
windows, for instance, callecl the Five Sisters in the nortli transept of
York cathedral, thongh merely tall, simple, nndivided openings, are as
fine as anything of their class execnted afterwarcls, and hoth externally
and intemally have a constructive soliclity ancl grandeur not fonnd in
the later mullioned examples. Their one defect is their insufficiency
for the display of painted glass, which, however, at the tirne at which
fhey were designecl, had liardly come much into fashion in England.
The first great catheclral huilt completely in the new style was
Salishury, hegnn in 1220
and finished in all essentials
in 1258. Eestoring, in ima-
gination at least, the painted
glass which once filled all
its windows and the colour
that once covered the walls
and vaults, its internal effect.
must have heen extremely
heautiful; far more so than
fhat of its great rival at
Amiens, with whicli it is so
often compared, though of
scarcely half the dimensions.
It must he rememhered that
in the French cathedral the
clerestory or “ haut. oeuvre”
was not erected till after
tlie great fire in 1258, when
Salishury was complete, and
is, therefore, tlre work of a
more advanced age. As it
at present stands, there is a
coldness and leanness ahout
Salishury that detracts con-
siderahly from its effect; hut
this is owing far more to
modern ahominations than
to anything inherent in the
design.
Externally the effect of
tliis cathedral is even hetter
than that of the interior.
690. rian of Salisbury Calhedral. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. Tll6 hold hl'eaking of tlie
out.line hy the two transepts
instead of cutting it up hy huttresses and pinnaclcs is a master-stroke
ot art; and its nohle central tower, wliich, though erected at a later age,
was evidently intended from the first, crowns the whole composition