The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . artment of the vaulting of thesecloisters. ST. BARTHOLOMEW S, SMITHFIELD. and other fragments,remained as late as1815, but being ofthe complete Gothic, style, they couldnot have belongedto Ra
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . artment of the vaulting of thesecloisters. ST. BARTHOLOMEW S, SMITHFIELD. and other fragments,remained as late as1815, but being ofthe complete Gothic, style, they couldnot have belongedto Rayheres and violenceseem to have donetheir worst, and /yet to have beenpartly baffled by thefortress-like masonry of good stoone,tablewyse, of thisonce noble are densely ^Jpacked against itsexterior, and the por-tions rising abovethem are entirely bar-barized, with a com-pleteness of whicheven modern Londonaffords no other ex-ample. It will there-fore be with no smallsurprise and pleasure f)that the visitor, onentering this black 1and hideous pile, will ^recognise the ruinsof a Norman choir,its sturdy cylindriccolumns, its lofty tri-forium or gallery (nowshut out by a wallbehind its piilars), andthe four grand archesthat supported thecentral lantern of thecruciform edifice. Thenorth and south armsof the transept areentirely gone (thoughthe site of the latterremains open as a. COMiARTMENTS OK ST. BARTHOLOMEWS CHOIR. 134. ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE—FIRST PERIOD. grave-yard), and of the western and longest arm, or nave,only part of the first bay or severy remains. This, togetherwith the northern and southern of the four lantern arches, maypossibly present the first examples of the pointed arch in thiscountry. In undertakings of this nature, it was usual, in those days,to commence the building at the east end, and gradually extend itwestward, by which means the work could be stopped at any point,and (being closed by a temporary front) serve the purposes of wor-s
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