. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. IllliiV Fig. 1301. ST. AT ROUEN. Chap. IV. PllINCIPLES OF PROPORTION. 1041 In the Church at St. Ouen at llouea, we have a very different auMiiTemeiit, anj by no means so solid a form. Winchester Cathedral. — One division of the nave has been selected to show the peculiar style practised at the latter end of the fourteenth century, and also the skill exhibited in changing the form of a Saxon edifice, and giving it its present char
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. IllliiV Fig. 1301. ST. AT ROUEN. Chap. IV. PllINCIPLES OF PROPORTION. 1041 In the Church at St. Ouen at llouea, we have a very different auMiiTemeiit, anj by no means so solid a form. Winchester Cathedral. — One division of the nave has been selected to show the peculiar style practised at the latter end of the fourteenth century, and also the skill exhibited in changing the form of a Saxon edifice, and giving it its present character. The plan, fig. 1303. is that of the pillar, as well as of the mouldings and walls of the tri- foriuin and clerestory above. When William of Wykeham effected the changes in the nave of this cathedral, he pre-served all above the arches of the trifo- rium, cutting away only the masonry of each division below that level which in-tervened between the main pillars ; he then caused the whole to be cased with an ashlar, so that the original Saxon masonry and proportions of the mass remain within the casing. Tlie dotted semicircular arch is the same as that in
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