. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. e, corre-sponding to the entire width of the west front, is 231 feet j the (proposed) height of tl;etowers is equal to the entire length of the building, 532 feet; the height of the side aisles70 feet, and so forth. In a similar manner, at the entrances on either side, are pedestalsfor seven statues ; in each of tlie entrances as many spaces for statues; there are 14 cornertabernacles on the southern tower ; and with attention, the san^e combination
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. e, corre-sponding to the entire width of the west front, is 231 feet j the (proposed) height of tl;etowers is equal to the entire length of the building, 532 feet; the height of the side aisles70 feet, and so forth. In a similar manner, at the entrances on either side, are pedestalsfor seven statues ; in each of tlie entrances as many spaces for statues; there are 14 cornertabernacles on the southern tower ; and with attention, the san^e combination may betraced in all the details. Twenty years appear to have elapsed, and then Iloflitadt puh-Jished the Gothisclies ABC Such, Irankfort, 1840, wliicii enters fully into the formation ofdetails iiy a geometric system. In England, the subject was not thoroughly taken up until 1840, when II. W. Billingspublished his Atlcnqt tu Difiiic the Geometric Prvporiiviis, &c. lie therein considers that lOlti PRACTICE OF AllCHITECTURE. Book IIL Clerestory1 square, TiiforiumI square Archi square- ColumnIJ square. Fig. 1227. the interior were during the Norman ]ieriod, no intricate figures were used for regulating tlie proportioniof ilie various parts of huildings. He exhibits tlie early simplicity of propoi-tion, in the elevation of a compartment of the Norman nave of GlouceNter(.athedral, as in the annexed ^.t;. 11227. Something of the same sort of equalitymay be perceived at Winciiesier Cathedral, as shown in Jig. 1266., where thewidth K L gives the heiglits 1. M and M N ; the diagonal of tliis square givesthe heiglit L O ; and O P is a s(]nare in lieight; but we ;iie at a loss to regulatethe upiier part, unless the triangle be used, when P Q will give the upper pointat R, tlie centre of the head of the semicircular window. In the projection of the plans of the nave and ciioir of Carlisle Cathedral ( ft(/.1228.). the architent, says Mr. liiiliiigs, was guided by the repetition of
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