Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . which on the east wall stoodthe nine altars (Plate LXXVI). The work was begun in 1243, five years after thedeath of Bishop Richard Poore, the builder of Salisburycathedral, who had been translated to Durham in 1229,and though not started in his lifetime the project was nodoubt due to him. As it was not finished till 1280 thischapel of the nine altars is the last, as it is also in itsway the grandest example on a large scale of the EarlyEnglish style, which before its completion had alreadybegun to pass into geometrical Gothic. The newaddition
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . which on the east wall stoodthe nine altars (Plate LXXVI). The work was begun in 1243, five years after thedeath of Bishop Richard Poore, the builder of Salisburycathedral, who had been translated to Durham in 1229,and though not started in his lifetime the project was nodoubt due to him. As it was not finished till 1280 thischapel of the nine altars is the last, as it is also in itsway the grandest example on a large scale of the EarlyEnglish style, which before its completion had alreadybegun to pass into geometrical Gothic. The newaddition involved the removal of S. Carilefs apse, andthe reconstruction of the choir vault which is describedin Prior Melsanbys appeal as ruinous and piece of good fortune has preserved the architectsname : a conveyance of a piece of land in the Bailey iswitnessed by Mragister Ricardus de Farinham, tuncarchitector novae fabricae Dunelm and a stone on abuttress at the east end is inscribed with the name of 1 v. sup. p. 185, note. Plate T. G. J. DURHAM—The Eastern Transept ch. xm] EARLY ENGLISH 243 a mason, Posuit hanc petram Thomas Moises. Nicolas Durhamde Farnham was bishop of Durham from 1241 to 1249,and the architect, as Canon Greenwell suggests, mayhave been his brother1. The great round window fillingthe middle bay in the upper part is the work of Wyatt :Canon Greenwell says it replaced in 1795 not the originalwindow but one put there in the 15th century. At thenorth end is a fine geometrical traceried window ap-parently an early alteration from the lancet windowdesign of the original architect. But we must leavetracery to be dealt with in another chapter. The vaulting is peculiar. It springs from clusteredshafts, some of which are of marble, and the ribs impingeon circular eyes or rings which are beautifully general construction is a kind of quadripartite, butan eccentric rib cuts irregularly across the two side baysvery awkwardly. In this splend
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