Identifier: 2encyclopaediaof00gwiluoft (find matches)
Title: An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863 Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894
Subjects: Architecture Architects
Publisher: London Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Architecture Landscape Design - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ide aisles together CllAP. IV. PRINCIPLES OF PROPORTION. 1039 are 15 feet, or williin a fewinches of the width of the•lave; consctjiicntly the wallsand piers in this beautifulexample are 17 feet 8 inches,or 15 inches more in extentthan they would have beenif the proportion of one-thirdhad been adopted. Theheight from the pavementto the under side of vault is41 feet 10 inches. After the examples de-Bcribed, we cannot doubt ofthe great jiroficiency that hadbeen made in the applicationof the rules of geometry toarchitecture ; every feature,whether the simple mouldingor the most elaborate tracery,was set out either upon theequilateral triangle, square,or pentagon, and these regu-lar figures seem to have beenchosen on account of thefacility by which they aresubdivided. From the in-troduction of the style eachfifty years that succeededbrought with them new andimproved princi))les, and atthe very commencement ofthe fourteenth century, wesee the clustered pillar and , 1 1 1^ 1 1 ^ ■ J=J!=
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Fig. lii>S lU.S Ol IiOSI.\^ CllAl LL, 1040 PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE. Book III. its mrtiiy moiildcJ arches yielding to astvie ,li:it combined greater simplicitywith a more tlioioiigli knowledge of con-struction, wliicli will be evident upon anexamination of St. Stephens Chapel, West-minster, (now destroyed,) begun in 1348,the nave of Canterbury and WinchesterCathedrals, and several others. In theseexamples we have elegantly formed archesresting on well-proportioned piers, themouldings of which so combine that theyform a perfect figure, and show that tliepoints of support were designed to carryall that is placed above them ; the samecontour of moulding that surrounds thepier performs its useful part in the upperportions of the building, constituting oneentire whole. This style, simple as wellas elegant, was executed by masons fullyqualified to advance it to the greatest per-fection, and deserves l)oth our study andadmiration. Canterbury Cathedral exhibits everyvariety of style found

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