A Guide to the Cathedral Church and Collegiate Buildings at Ely [By G. Millers.]. - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1805 Excerpt: ... SKETCH OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH! CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. L Age.--Saxon, from the Conversion of the Saxons to the Norman Conquest in 1066. 2. Age.--Norman, from 1066 to 1200, comprehending the reigns of Will. I. Will. II. Henry I. Stephen, Henry II. and Richard I. 3. Age.--Early English, from 1200 to 1300, comprehending the reigns of John, Hen. III. and Edw. I. 4. Age.--Ornamented English, from 1300 to 1460, comprehending a small part of the reign of Edw. I., and those of Edw. II. Edw. III. Rich. II. Hen. IV. V. and VI. 5. Age.--Florid English, from 1460 to 1537, the dissolution of religious houses; comprehending the reigns of Edw. IV. and V. Rich. III. Hen. VII. and VIII. 1. Characteristics of the Sawn style. Arches.--Semicircular--frequently very plain--sometimes decorated with various sorts of mouldings, not only on the face, but in the soffit, which in some instances (as in the ruins at Ely) is entirely occupied by them--double, triple, or quadruple, each resting on two columns, and generally faced with a different moulding, which is frequently double, so that upon the whole, there are six or eight concentric semicircles of them. Columns.--Single--cylindrical, hexagonal, or octagonal, on a square plinth--strong, and short in proportion to the span of the arch--circumference often equal to the height--shafts often adorned with spiral or fluted carving, with lozenge, herring-bone, zig-zag, or hatched work--the capitals decorated with rude imitations of some correspondent member of a Grecian order, as leaves or volutes--and in these ornaments, in the same range of columns, much and even sportive variety is displayed; only the opposite ones being commonly alike. Windows--ofcne light--with semicircular heads--of' very small dimensions--sometimes so very...

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