Identifier: cathedralantiqui03brit (find matches)
Title: Cathedral antiquities
Year: 1814 (1810s)
Authors: Britton, John, 1771-1857
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture
Publisher: London : Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, Brown, and Green
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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Caption: Hereford Cathedral. View in the N. Transept
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tri-bution into multiplied mouldings of the most delicate execution; the arcadesimmediately above, divided by mullions into lesser arches, and closed in by-perforated quatrefoils in circles; the high pointed and expanded windows,differing only according to their situations, but especially that towards thenorth, which occupies nearly the whole of the extremity; the dog-toothquatrefoil and patterns in mosaic, tastefully introduced within the arches,and on the surface of the walls, all preserve the same acute and determinedcharacter; with the lofty stone vaulting connecting together the differentobjects, render this apartment an exquisite specimen of the architecturalgenius of the twelfth century. This transept is adorned by a very interestingmonument of antient architectural and sculptural design, raised to thememory of Saint Cantelupe, which will be hereafter noticed. It is, however,most lamentably disfigured by numerous pews and seats, appropriated to the EMBL&IL &BKEBqnDECPSB
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T.WCLu-ki; clel. EngrinisL by JLc liL-ux. VJDBW IK TIHMK U. TBAHSHPT. Tb the XEVV JOHN JOjSTES. M.A. OF HEKEFOItl); a Jatron of Aril-i^iiariaii Literattrre,-tbifl .Hate is i3iscrjVcLby- THE -AUTHOR. Zcndcn lUiUsltxd, ^iu^u^t 1JSJ1. hyXanariuai S-- CH&avwsterJfom EAST TRANSEPT. 51 parishioners of St. John the Baptists parish, who formerly occupied part ofthe nave, and who from prescriptive right claim accommodation within thewalls of the Cathedral Church. Behind the altar, and extending north and south beyond the ailes, asshewn in the plan, is the Eastern Transept, a portion dissimilar inarchitectural character to any other part of the Church. It consists of twoailes, of the same height and same width, with three columns and two piersextending through the middle, north and south. One of the columns andthe piers are now incorporated in a screen and walls enclosing the westernend of the Lady Chapel. They are represented in Plate v., which alsodisplays the character of the rib mouldin

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