Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . T. G. WELLS CATHEDRAL—The Nave ch. xi] THE TRANSITION 185 in the group of shafts intended originally for the timber Durham /-, cathedral root . But whatever be the date of the existing vaults ofthe nave and transepts it would seem that the choir hada stone vault of some kind even earlier in date whichhad become ruinous in 1235, and was then replacedby another. The chronicle speaks of it as an ancientstructure erected over the shrine of S. Cuthbert by thepiety of former generations2. The nave of Wells cathedral (Plate LIX) is now Wells cit
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . T. G. WELLS CATHEDRAL—The Nave ch. xi] THE TRANSITION 185 in the group of shafts intended originally for the timber Durham /-, cathedral root . But whatever be the date of the existing vaults ofthe nave and transepts it would seem that the choir hada stone vault of some kind even earlier in date whichhad become ruinous in 1235, and was then replacedby another. The chronicle speaks of it as an ancientstructure erected over the shrine of S. Cuthbert by thepiety of former generations2. The nave of Wells cathedral (Plate LIX) is now Wells citnccl nl attributed to Bishop Reginald de Bohun (1174—1191) navewho consecrated the late Romanesque Lady Chapel ofGlastonbury in 1186, though Mr Freeman and olderwriters give the credit of it to Bishop Jocelin (1206—1242)the builder of the very different west front3. But thoughthe whole nave is in the same early style, the three,perhaps four, western bays appear to be by a differentand later hand than the rest, and these may be thework of Jocelin, who
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