. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Fig. 1. Mayors chapel. Barrett describes it (p. 387) as a pretty gothicwindow, an expression which naturally leads to the inference thatit is constructed in the pointed style of architecture, instead ofwhich, upon examination, it is found not to possess a single featureof that beautiful style of building, but it is in every particular. J. Lavars, Del1878 The West Front of St. James Church. 21 decidedly Anglo-Norman. In Cliilcotts Bristol is an illustrationjust as far removed from being accurate. Mr. Jolin Taylor, in hisB
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Fig. 1. Mayors chapel. Barrett describes it (p. 387) as a pretty gothicwindow, an expression which naturally leads to the inference thatit is constructed in the pointed style of architecture, instead ofwhich, upon examination, it is found not to possess a single featureof that beautiful style of building, but it is in every particular. J. Lavars, Del1878 The West Front of St. James Church. 21 decidedly Anglo-Norman. In Cliilcotts Bristol is an illustrationjust as far removed from being accurate. Mr. Jolin Taylor, in hisBook about Bristol, writes of it as a small but beautiful rose-window, and the same author, in Bristol Past and Present,describes it as a small but exquisite wheel-window of the samedate (Norman), and the elevation of this front is there given (see/iff. i).^ The same author, in his Notes 07i the Architecture of theMiddle Ages in Bristol, refers to it as a very curious circularwindow, nevertheless, the illustration which he gives of it is inevery feature of its tracery totally unlike the original. The most correct illustration, generally, of the west front ofthis church, and of the window in question, will be found in thebeautiful engraving No. 1. in the abortive work of Messrs. Burder,Hine, and Godwin, entitled The Architectural Antiquities ofBristol, of which, unfortunately, one number only was print
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