An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience . ow-glass, and richly co-loured wall-spaces. The stained glass, of which honour, not of our Lady, but of the blessed Trinity. In thelist of the ornamenta tradita ab A. Thesaurario ad deserv :diversis altaribus in ecclesia Sarum, given in Dr. Rocks Church of Our Fathers, iv., app., pp. 107, loS, the firstthree altars are given as altare St. Petri, altare OmniumSanctorum, and altare Sti Stephani. There is no mention inthe De Officiis Ecclesiasticis Tractatus of an altar of theB. V.
An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience . ow-glass, and richly co-loured wall-spaces. The stained glass, of which honour, not of our Lady, but of the blessed Trinity. In thelist of the ornamenta tradita ab A. Thesaurario ad deserv :diversis altaribus in ecclesia Sarum, given in Dr. Rocks Church of Our Fathers, iv., app., pp. 107, loS, the firstthree altars are given as altare St. Petri, altare OmniumSanctorum, and altare Sti Stephani. There is no mention inthe De Officiis Ecclesiasticis Tractatus of an altar of theB. V. M. as distinct from the high altar, which was, of course,under her invocation. liee Of this truly admirable work I give an illustration,again from a sketch by Edward OBrien. It is clearly thework of a more imaginative artist than he who designed thechurch itself. It is not only interesting historically, and forits beauty, but may serve also as an early specimen of the fully-developed bar-tracery which succeeded to those modificationsof the grouped-lancet idea, ol which I have already givenexamples. PLATE SALISBURY OF BISHOP GILES OF BRIDPORT. THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. M3 a. few fragments have escaped the vandalism of thepuritans, and the stupidity of the chapter, was re-markable, both by the absence of figure-work, andthe unusual predominance of white glass. Thewalls, on the contrary, were painted a full red,relieved by bold scroll-work in black, and themouldings were decorated upon the same system. Thus the marble-work, instead of showing, as itnow does, almost black upon white, was designed tobe in perfect tone, as regards chiaro-oscuro, with thered and the black of the wall-spaces. The onlyparts in which white was employed as a ground werethe vaultings, the ribs of which were decorated infull colour, while the inter-spaces were occupied bymedallions, in which red is again the Of the general plan of this, the
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