The Cathedrals of England and Wales, Tập 2T.W. Laurie, 1926 - 344 trang |
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Abbot ancient apse arcades Archbishop architect architecture bays beautiful Bishop building built canopies Canterbury central tower Chapter-house choir choir-aisle choir-screen clerestory cloisters columns commenced completed crypt Dean Decorated period doorway Early English east end east window eastern aisle eastern limb eastern transept Ely Cathedral England episcopate erected Exeter Exeter Cathedral façade feature feet fifteenth century four fourteenth century Gloucester Gothic graceful groined King Lady Chapel lancets lantern Late Decorated Lichfield LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL lights Lincoln Lincoln Cathedral monks mouldings nave noble north side northern octagon old Norman opening original Norman Oxford Cathedral period Perpendicular Perpendicular period Peterborough piers pillars portion presbytery present procession path quatrefoil rebuilt remains reredos restoration rich Rochester Rochester Cathedral roof screen sculpture shrine slender shafts south aisle south side south transept specimen spire St Alban's St Paul's stained glass stalls stone style thirteenth century tracery transept triforium vaulting wall west end west front Winchester
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Trang 52 - Sarum, naturally strong and rendered almost impregnable by its formidable lines of entrenchment, was in many respects inconvenient. There was a scarcity of water ; and the cathedral stood so high and exposed that, according to an old tradition, " when the wind did blow they could not hear the priest say mass.
Trang 174 - Now behind the Communion-table, &c. [See ante, p. 194, extract 402.]* " Over this place in the roof of the church, in a large oval yet to be seen, was the picture of our SAVIOUR seated on a throne, one hand erected, and holding a globe in the other ; attended with the four Evangelists and Saints on each side, with crowns in their hands : intended, I suppose, for a representation of our SAVIOUR'S coming to judgment. Some of the company espying this, cry out and say, ' Lo, this is the god these people...
Trang 114 - When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion : then were we like unto them that dream.
Trang 201 - Such was the press to see these children in the exhibition, that there was no getting near them ; mothers, with tears in their eyes, lingered, and went away, and returned, while Canova's now far-famed figures of Hebe and Terpsichore stood almost unnoticed by their side.
Trang 34 - The eastern compartment on each side, as well as the east wall, have respectively a large Perpendicular window of seven lights, with transom and tracery of a peculiar kind of subordination, or rather interpenetration of patterns, well worth a careful study*. The vault is a complex and beautiful specimen of lierne work.
Trang 173 - Communion-table there stood a curious piece of stone-work, admired much by strangers and travellers ; a stately screen it was, well wrought, painted and gilt, which rose up as high almost as the roof of the church in a row of three lofty spires, with other lesser spires growing out of each of them...
Trang 68 - a delicate, rich, and lofty organ, which had more additions than any other, as fair pipes of an extraordinary length, and of the bigness of a man's thigh, which, with their viols and other sweet instruments, the tunable voices and the rare organist, together made a melodious and heavenly harmony, able to ravish the hearer's ears.
Trang 23 - Chapel are entirely devoted, as were all the rest, to the miracles of Becket, which commenced immediately on the death of the great martyr, to whom, as visions declared, a place had been assigned between the apostles and the martyrs, preceding even St.
Trang 341 - Shaft, the body of a column or pillar; the part between the capital and the base; but usually applied to the small columns clustered round pillars, or used in the jambs of doors and windows, in arcades, and various other situations.
Trang 25 - Dick, the great iconoclast of Canterbury, who " rattled down proud Beeket's glassie bones " with a pike, and who, when thus engaged, narrowly escaped martyrdom himself at the hands of a " malignant " fellow-townsman, who " threw a stone with so good a will, that, if St. Richard Culmer had not ducked, he might have laid his own bones among the rubbish.