Identifier: gothicarchitectu01jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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one home before they were built, but of EnglishWilliam who succeeded him. William of Sens had indeedused coupled columns in one place under an intermediaterib, just where the bend in the structure begins, but hehad combined with them a pair of marble shafts whichalters their character. English Williams coupled shaftsare much more like those at Sens than those of hispredecessor, but instead of alternating them with largerpiers as at Sens to express their different load, he hasused them indifferently throughout. The idea of thecoupled columns was no doubt given him by FrenchWilliam, but he used it in his own way, and probably notas his predecessor would have done. In the eastern partof the crypt, which is also the work of English William,the columns are round, and have the round abacus witha simple flat member below, undercut at bottom and witha necking, though in the upper church his shafts all havethe square abacus. 1 The clerestory windows at Sens are not part of the original design.
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L L. S- ch. xi) THE TRANSITION 195 The mouldings of both the Williams are enriched Canter-with Norman billets and zigzags, and also with the Early cathedral.English dog-tooth. The zigzags are of the later refined m0uidingsform, undercut and sunk. But besides these details thesections of the arches and vaulting ribs are much moreelaborate than those at Sens, which consist only of squareorders with a roll on each angle (v. Plate I). In thismay be detected English taste, for throughout the wholeGothic period much more use was made of mouldingshere than in France. One feature common to the twochurches is the moulded band which ties the detached The bandscolonnettes to the wall. At Sens this occurs in the shaftthat carries the intermediate rib ; at Canterbury it tiesin the marble colonnettes. These colonnettes are usedmuch more profusely here than at Sens, and they are allof Purbeck or Bethersden marble which gives a different Englishcharacter to the design from anything in France, and is

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