Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . eauties, how-ever, the proportions of the three storeys in thesetransepts is not agreeable. Dividing the elevation into32 parts as in former cases they are apportioned asfollows :— Arcade, roughlyTriforium, „Clerestory, ,, i6| parts A »32 The triforium is too large and reduces the clerestoryto insignificance. The design very closely resemblesthat of the triforium at Rievaulx (Plate LXIX, p. 223sup.) which indeed may have been taken for a model,for it has one bay next the crossing in which a semi-circular arch encloses the pair of two-light op
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . eauties, how-ever, the proportions of the three storeys in thesetransepts is not agreeable. Dividing the elevation into32 parts as in former cases they are apportioned asfollows :— Arcade, roughlyTriforium, „Clerestory, ,, i6| parts A »32 The triforium is too large and reduces the clerestoryto insignificance. The design very closely resemblesthat of the triforium at Rievaulx (Plate LXIX, p. 223sup.) which indeed may have been taken for a model,for it has one bay next the crossing in which a semi-circular arch encloses the pair of two-light openings asat York. The transepts at York have wooden roofsof a waggon form, ornamented with ribs, and with sidepockets over the windows. The effect of these is goodand preferable to the wooden imitation of stone rib-and-panel vaulting in the nave and choir. For except in theaisles there is no stone vaulting at York. The eastern part of the great collegiate church inthe pleasant town of Beverley, incorrectly like the CH. XIIl] EARLY ENGLISH 245. Fg- 97- (From Archaeol. Inst. Proceedings. 1846.) triforium 246 EARLY ENGLISH [ch. xiii Beverley cathedral of York called a minster, is of early Englishdate. This part includes the choir, the two transepts its great and one bay of the nave. The plan is on the scale ofa cathedral ; the great transept has aisles on both sides,the eastern transept one on its eastern side, and prepara-tion was made by four mighty piers for a central towerthat was never achieved. The windows are all single-light lancets, and the foliage of the capitals is of a simpleearly type like that in S. Hughs work at Lincoln. Thethree storeys are well proportioned, with a lofty arcadeand a fine clerestory (Fig. 97). There is no open The triforium, but blank arcading of four trifoliated arches on Purbeck marble colonnettes, behind which and touch-ing it is a second arcade on colonnettes that stand in themiddle of the front arches, the two arcades alternatinglike the
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