. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. CllUIiCII AT .SOUILLAC. Chap. II POINTED ARCH. IJ5. ri^s OF sr. vROjrD, perioueix. we give a jilaii (_%. L>9), was co iinienctd in tlie year 9S1, and was complited in 1047, on the type of, if not copied from, tliecailiedral of St. INIark, at Venice. Asection is given in Jiff. KJO, exliibitingtlie use of tiie pointed arches in con-struction only. The clioir at Locheswas erected between the years 11-10and 1180, and is in the late and elegantNorman
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. CllUIiCII AT .SOUILLAC. Chap. II POINTED ARCH. IJ5. ri^s OF sr. vROjrD, perioueix. we give a jilaii (_%. L>9), was co iinienctd in tlie year 9S1, and was complited in 1047, on the type of, if not copied from, tliecailiedral of St. INIark, at Venice. Asection is given in Jiff. KJO, exliibitingtlie use of tiie pointed arches in con-struction only. The clioir at Locheswas erected between the years 11-10and 1180, and is in the late and elegantNorman style universal in that country,just anteiior to the introduction of thetrue (lointed style, wliicli was timidlyoHected in the iiorth of France aboutthe year 1150. being mixed witli roundarches in all the great cathedrals andchurches erected between andItiOO, at which date the style may besaid to have been perfected in all itsessential ])eculiarit:es. .307(1. • In England it was in everyrespect above twenty-five years laterThe first really authentic example ofits use is in Canterbury Cathedral afterthe fire in 1175, and was apparently in-troduced by William of Sjns; nearlyhalf a centu
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