Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . THE MEDIAEVAL ARCHITECT 269 generally controlled by a Surveyor, or Treasurer. AtWestminster he was called Keeper of the Kings the beginning of the work this office was held by Odothe Goldsmith and his son Edward. In the roll of 1249occur the names of Dominus Edwardus, Clericus, andMagister Henricus, Cetneniarius1. In 1378 Geoffrey deCarlton was Cetneniarius at Windsor, and William of William ofWykeham, who was succeeded in 1389 by Chaucer, was as clerkClericus. Again in 1362 we find the names of MistreWilliam Herland, chief carpenter
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . THE MEDIAEVAL ARCHITECT 269 generally controlled by a Surveyor, or Treasurer. AtWestminster he was called Keeper of the Kings the beginning of the work this office was held by Odothe Goldsmith and his son Edward. In the roll of 1249occur the names of Dominus Edwardus, Clericus, andMagister Henricus, Cetneniarius1. In 1378 Geoffrey deCarlton was Cetneniarius at Windsor, and William of William ofWykeham, who was succeeded in 1389 by Chaucer, was as clerkClericus. Again in 1362 we find the names of MistreWilliam Herland, chief carpenter, Henry Yevele, deviserof masonry, and William of Wickham, clerk. 1 Cementarius is the usual term in England. In Italian contracts theMaster-Mason is styled Lapicida. At Venice the architect Zuane Bon in1430 translates this into Tajapiera, Venetian for tagliapietra. CHAPTER XVI WESTMINSTER ABBEY, continued French Henry III had French sympathies, and he seems Henry in to have determined that his new church should follow ?—1350. i : MEMKI Villi. he ~*~krale of- -frrl- Fig. 99. the style of the cathedrals then either just finished or inprogress in the French royal domain. The cathedral at appear-ance atWest-minster ch. xvi] WESTMINSTER ABBEY 271 Reims, which was begun in 1213 after a fire, had been Con-finished in 1241. The west front of Notre Dame at work?*Paris was built between 1218 and 1235. When Henrys Francework at Westminster was started in 1245, the choir ofLe Mans, and the nave of Amiens were just completed,and Pierre de Montereau was busy building theSte Chapelle, and the nave of S. Denis. The effect of the kings French taste was to bring a Disappear- r . • n , •t-ti i ance of the foreign influence to bear on native English architecture apseinfor the third and last time till the Renaissance. It was five- ng arand-forty years since S. Hugh built his apse at Lincoln,and since then apses had been given up, and the greatEnglish churches ended square. The Continental ap
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