The history and antiquities of the abbey church of StPeter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation . ignorant architect, who undertakes to build the Cloister, so that thebuttresses should be without the Cloister spanning over it. This was a dan-gerous attempt; it is by due consideration of the statick principles, and theright poizing of the weight of the butments to the arches, that good architec-ture depends ; and the butments ought to have equal gravity on both this was done to flatter the humour of the monks, yet th
The history and antiquities of the abbey church of StPeter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation . ignorant architect, who undertakes to build the Cloister, so that thebuttresses should be without the Cloister spanning over it. This was a dan-gerous attempt; it is by due consideration of the statick principles, and theright poizing of the weight of the butments to the arches, that good architec-ture depends ; and the butments ought to have equal gravity on both this was done to flatter the humour of the monks, yet the archi- * The Elevation in Plate XXXIII. shews the eastern extremity of the South Transept; as wellas portions of the east end of the Church itself, with its central tower, and of the attached Chapels,including that of Henry the Seventh. The acute-headed doorway beneath the large window on theleft, is that which opens into Poets Corner; and the Pointed Window seen over the buttress of Henrythe Sevenths Chapel, on the right, is one of those described in the text as varying from the genera!form of the upper range of windows belonging to the small EXTERIOR OF THE SOUTH SIDE. 17 tect should have considered that new work carried very high would shrink ;from hence the walls above the windows are forced out ten inches, and theribs broken*. The reprehension contained in this paragraph was notdeserved, for the immediate connection of the Cloisters with the Church wasassuredly in accordance with the original design ; and, all things considered,no architect, perhaps, could have devised a more judicious method of coun-teracting the difficulties inseparable from the plan than that which has beenemployed. The first six buttresses, westward from the Transept, have theirbases within the Cloister Green, and are each connected with the walls of theChurch by four arch-buttresses of considerable magnitude, the uppermostof which extends over the aisle. The specific gravity of every buttr
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