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Bk. III. Ch. IX. FRENCH GOTHIC CATHEDRALS.
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find it, about tlie year 1272. From this period to the building of the
choir of St. Ouen, at Rouen, 1318-1339, there is a remarkabie
deficiency of great examples in France. The intermediate space is
very imperfectly filled by the examples of St. Urbain at Troyes, St.
Bénigne at Dijon, and a few others. These are just sufficient to show
how exquisite the style then was, and what we have lost by almost all
the cathedrals of France having been commenced simultaneously, and
none being left in which the experience of their predecessors could be
made available.
Though the plans of these cathedrals differ to some extent, their
dimensions are very nearly the same ; that at—
Paris, covering about . . . 64,108 feet.
Cliartres. 68,260 „
Rbeims. 67,475 „
Amiens. 71,208 ,,
These dimensions, though inferior to those of Cologne, Milan,
Seville, and some other exceptional buildings, are still as large as those
of any erected in the Middle Ages.
Paris. (From Oailhabaud, ' Architecture.')
Scale 50 ft. to 1 in.
Original I Improved
Design. | DeMign.
622. External Elevation, Cathedral
of Paris. (From Gnilhabatid.)
The cathedral of Paris was designed at a time when the architects
had not obtained that confidence in their own skill which made them
afterwards complete masters of the constructive difficulties of the
design. As shown in the plan (Woodcut No. 620), the points of
support are far more numerous and are placed nearer to one another
than is usually the case ; and as may be seen from the section, instead
of two tall storeys, the height is diiûded into three, and made up, if I
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find it, about tlie year 1272. From this period to the building of the
choir of St. Ouen, at Rouen, 1318-1339, there is a remarkabie
deficiency of great examples in France. The intermediate space is
very imperfectly filled by the examples of St. Urbain at Troyes, St.
Bénigne at Dijon, and a few others. These are just sufficient to show
how exquisite the style then was, and what we have lost by almost all
the cathedrals of France having been commenced simultaneously, and
none being left in which the experience of their predecessors could be
made available.
Though the plans of these cathedrals differ to some extent, their
dimensions are very nearly the same ; that at—
Paris, covering about . . . 64,108 feet.
Cliartres. 68,260 „
Rbeims. 67,475 „
Amiens. 71,208 ,,
These dimensions, though inferior to those of Cologne, Milan,
Seville, and some other exceptional buildings, are still as large as those
of any erected in the Middle Ages.
Paris. (From Oailhabaud, ' Architecture.')
Scale 50 ft. to 1 in.
Original I Improved
Design. | DeMign.
622. External Elevation, Cathedral
of Paris. (From Gnilhabatid.)
The cathedral of Paris was designed at a time when the architects
had not obtained that confidence in their own skill which made them
afterwards complete masters of the constructive difficulties of the
design. As shown in the plan (Woodcut No. 620), the points of
support are far more numerous and are placed nearer to one another
than is usually the case ; and as may be seen from the section, instead
of two tall storeys, the height is diiûded into three, and made up, if I