Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . epared for vaulting and the builders were ina difficulty. The diagonal ribs do not spring from themain group of capitals but from corbels inserted in thewall beside them, which they would hardly do had theybeen intended at first. Moreover as Flambard only builtup to the testudo, if the testudo be the present vault hewould not have built the clerestory, for the vault springsbelow it. But the clerestory is evidently coeval withthe part below. My own impression is that at the death of Flambardin 1128 the walls including the clerestory were ready
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . epared for vaulting and the builders were ina difficulty. The diagonal ribs do not spring from themain group of capitals but from corbels inserted in thewall beside them, which they would hardly do had theybeen intended at first. Moreover as Flambard only builtup to the testudo, if the testudo be the present vault hewould not have built the clerestory, for the vault springsbelow it. But the clerestory is evidently coeval withthe part below. My own impression is that at the death of Flambardin 1128 the walls including the clerestory were ready fora wooden roof or testudo, and that in the interval between1128 and 1133 the monks put on this wooden roof; thatabout the middle of the 12th century the stone vault wasconstructed, the capitals of the vaulting shafts beingrefixed lower down to receive the ribs as we know wasdone at S. Etienne, Caen, and corbels being inserted totake the diagonal ribs, for which there was no provision 1 v. Mr Bond m Journal of above cited. Plate III. Dl i HAM CATHEDRAL The Nave Plate LIX . X !! r*. \ ? - / . ??-. li? v 7/A r
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