An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . CRYPTS -A-TminT rhapel i-c B 13k>u- Xv. ,^. A NTEKBTJITi CATHKDBjil, CANTERBURY. 107 wotk and the great fire by which it was almost destroyed, is too evi-dent to be questioned. The precise words of Gervase are important:— It has been stated that after the fire nearly all the old portions of the choirwere destroyed, and changed into somewhat new and of a more noble fashion;the difference between the two works may now be enume
An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . CRYPTS -A-TminT rhapel i-c B 13k>u- Xv. ,^. A NTEKBTJITi CATHKDBjil, CANTERBURY. 107 wotk and the great fire by which it was almost destroyed, is too evi-dent to be questioned. The precise words of Gervase are important:— It has been stated that after the fire nearly all the old portions of the choirwere destroyed, and changed into somewhat new and of a more noble fashion;the difference between the two works may now be enumerated. The pillarsof the old and new work are alike in form and thickness, but different inlength; for the new pillars were elongated by almost twelve feet. In the oldcapitals the work was plain, in the new ones exquisite in sculpture. There thecircuit of the choir had twenty-two pillars, here are twenty-eight. Therethe arches and everything else was plain, or sctilptured with an axe and notwith a chisel; but here, almost throughout, is appropriate sculpture. Nomarble columns were there, but here are innumerable ones. There in thecircuit around the choir the vaults were plain, but here they
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