A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . , now, the church isdoubled in its horizontal dimensions, and thenave is made .50 feet wide, we have a height of127 feet to the crown of the vault and 171 feetof total height to the ridge of the roof, which isvery nearly tliat of the great French cathedralsof the thirteenth century. In other words, itwas no tour de force which the Gothic archi-tects were engaged in, but the carrying out oftheir simple and obvious principles of design,which they fearlessly followed wherever theymight lead. The decoration of
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . , now, the church isdoubled in its horizontal dimensions, and thenave is made .50 feet wide, we have a height of127 feet to the crown of the vault and 171 feetof total height to the ridge of the roof, which isvery nearly tliat of the great French cathedralsof the thirteenth century. In other words, itwas no tour de force which the Gothic archi-tects were engaged in, but the carrying out oftheir simple and obvious principles of design,which they fearlessly followed wherever theymight lead. The decoration of the Gothic structure ischiefly derived frcnn skilful ami elaborate stone270 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE cutting, iucluding sculpture, anil this stone cut-ting is of two kinds : first, the repetition in adecorative way of forms which were once purelyconstructional; and, secondly, of forms sug- GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE for the solidity and dignity of the of such ornamentation as this, with evenmore of sculpture of natural form, would ticwelcome to such critics. It is noticeable, how-. GoTHic Architecture: Fig. 6. Cathedral of Noyon (Oise), pcLuliar in two rounded ends. Elaborate vaulting of deauibulatory and apsidal chapels. gested by visible nature, of plants and second kind of decoration was a tlirect in-heritance from the Romanesque work out ofwhich the Gothic architecture had grown. Butthe first kind came of that intense love for thestyle which they had invented, peculiar to theGothic builders. Tims, in the sculpture whichis put upon the outside of a gable, like that ofthe transept of Notre Dame, there are littlearcades and tracery suggested in the stonework,and there are also pieces of very rich sculptureof natural form in great variety and seems to many persons that the first of thesetwo styles of decoration was carried too fiir, and ever, that no other system of architecture liadever included much attention paid to extern
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