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ENGLISH ARCHITECTUKE.
Part II.
perhaps no example o£ a ISTorman Chapel now existing, unless the
remains o£ the infirmary chapels at Canterbury and Ely may be
considered as such. The practice o£ erecting them seerns to have
risen with our educational colleges, where all those present took part
in the service, and the public were practically excluded. One o£ the
finest and earliest of these is that of Merton College, Oxford. It
has, and was always designed to have, a wooden roof ; but of what
843. Internal Elevation in St. Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster.
fashion is not quite clear, except that it certainly could never have
been like the one now existing.
The typical specimen of that age, however, was the royal chapel of
St. Stephen at Westminster, which, from what remained of it till
after the Great Eire, we know must have been the most exquisitely
beautiful specimen of English art left us by the Middle Ages. 1
It was 92 ft. long by 33 ft. wide internally, and 42 ft. high to the
1 Few things of its class are more to be
regretted tban tbe destruction of tbis
beautiful relic in rebuilding tlie Parlia-
ment Houses. It would bave been cheaper
to restore it, and infinitely more beautiful
when restored tbanj^the present gallery
wbicb takes its place. It is sad, too, to
think that nothing bas been done to re-
produce its beauties. When the colleges
of Exeter at Oxford, or St. John’s, Cam-
bridge, were rebuilding tbeir cbapels, it
would bave been infinitely better to re-
producethis exquisite sirecimen of Englisb
art tban tbe models of French chapels
wbich bave been adopted.
The work on St. Stephen’s Chapel,
publisbed for tbe Woods and Forests by
Mr. Mackenzie, is rendered useless by the
addition of an upper storey wbicli never
existed.
ENGLISH ARCHITECTUKE.
Part II.
perhaps no example o£ a ISTorman Chapel now existing, unless the
remains o£ the infirmary chapels at Canterbury and Ely may be
considered as such. The practice o£ erecting them seerns to have
risen with our educational colleges, where all those present took part
in the service, and the public were practically excluded. One o£ the
finest and earliest of these is that of Merton College, Oxford. It
has, and was always designed to have, a wooden roof ; but of what
843. Internal Elevation in St. Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster.
fashion is not quite clear, except that it certainly could never have
been like the one now existing.
The typical specimen of that age, however, was the royal chapel of
St. Stephen at Westminster, which, from what remained of it till
after the Great Eire, we know must have been the most exquisitely
beautiful specimen of English art left us by the Middle Ages. 1
It was 92 ft. long by 33 ft. wide internally, and 42 ft. high to the
1 Few things of its class are more to be
regretted tban tbe destruction of tbis
beautiful relic in rebuilding tlie Parlia-
ment Houses. It would bave been cheaper
to restore it, and infinitely more beautiful
when restored tbanj^the present gallery
wbicb takes its place. It is sad, too, to
think that nothing bas been done to re-
produce its beauties. When the colleges
of Exeter at Oxford, or St. John’s, Cam-
bridge, were rebuilding tbeir cbapels, it
would bave been infinitely better to re-
producethis exquisite sirecimen of Englisb
art tban tbe models of French chapels
wbich bave been adopted.
The work on St. Stephen’s Chapel,
publisbed for tbe Woods and Forests by
Mr. Mackenzie, is rendered useless by the
addition of an upper storey wbicli never
existed.